Before having an Autism Day Care and Treatment Centre, children with Autism spectrum disorder and children with mental problems who worked with physiotherapists, speech therapists, and psychologists came to The Rehabilitation Centre. The number of these children was growing and in order to work intensively with them there was an urgent need to have appropriate facilities in the Rehabilitation Centre to organize the treatment of children with such problems.

After long and hard work, thanks to the Jinishian Memorial Foundation, Howard Karagyozyan Medical Charitable Organization, Caroline Cox Rehabilitation Centre, and the Government of the Artsakh Republic, on May 2, 2017, a specialized Autism Department was opened in the Rehabilitation Centre.

60 children receive treatment annually. The trained specialists include: psychologist, speech therapist, ergotherapist, physiotherapist, special pedagogues, social worker, two nannies and a nurse.

The treatment of children is organized in three stages per year, each child is included in 20 stages, divided into 4 groups, 5 children in each group. The work is carried out in two shifts.

More than 186 children have received the services of the Autism Day Care Centre during these five years.

Today marks the fifth anniversary of the Autism Day Care and Treatment Centre, an event was organized in this regard which was attended by the Minister of State of the Artsakh Republic Artak Beglaryan, the Minister of Health Mikael Hayriyan, the Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sports Anahit Hakobyan, Labor, Social Migration Deputy Minister Vahram Arakelyan, Human Rights Defender Gegham Stepanyan and other officials.

Short episodes from the five years of the Autism Centre were presented showing all the work done with children during their day at the Autism Centre. We talked about the difficulties encountered, and of course the achievements we reached, and at the end an excerpt from our children’s song circle was shown.

At the end of the event, the director of the Centre, Vardan Tadevosyan, presented the ongoing works and the progress of the renovation  to the Minister of Health, Mikael Hayriyan.

We thank all the participants of today’s event; those who were able to take their time to celebrate this day with us.

Together we are strong and we can create the dream world of our children if we stay united.