Psychopedagogical and therapeutic treatment for autistic children: an experience about psychopedagogical and health services working together

Abstract

Autism is an evolutionary disorder carrying with serious, obvious, persistent and specific disturbances in perception, communication, language and social interaction. Families, doctors and teachers send more and more children with autistic symptoms to the assessment services, so that a light increasing about autistic spectrum disorders diagnosis is perceptible nowadays. Providing treatments to improve the autistic children’s competence, within scholar and homely limits, it’s been absolutely essential and caused both teams, EAP and CSMIJ, a successful collaboration. In order to achieve this aim we need to face up the diagnosis and agree about the therapeutic treatment. It’s necessary that autistic children can improve learning with social skills training and know how to communicate and speak, if possible. Working both teams ensemble, with unitary criteria and similar therapeutic proposals is a great helpful for the teachers and the autistic children’s families too.