On World Autism Awareness Day (April 2), partners of the ASD-EAST project joined Autism-Europe’s two-year awareness raising campaign, “I can learn. I can work” to promote access to education and employment for people on the autism spectrum. In line with the objectives of the ASD-EAST project, the campaign recognizes the [...]
On January 24 2019, partners from the University of Northampton and Autism-Europe met in Brussels in order to work on the ASD-East recommendations for policy-makers, as well as preparing the last transnational partner meeting and final event in June 2020. One of the main objectives of ASD-East is to develop [...]
We are now coming up to the second Christmas of the ASD-EAST project, and it’s hard to believe that the project is only fifteen months old. And also hard to believe that there are less than nine months to go! The partnership has worked together brilliantly, and has achieved an [...]
Over the last months of 2019, the ASD-EAST Autism Teacher Training Curriculum and Programme has been testing with more than 300 professionals in North Macedonia, Poland, and Croatia. The following lines provide a better understanding on how the training has been developed on the basis of an initial Mapping report, [...]
The ASD-EAST project, launched back in 2018, supports nine organisations from across the fields of education and disability not just to develop training for the inclusion of learners on the autism spectrum, but also to share best practice and work collaboratively to help improve provision, boost growth, and create jobs. [...]
The Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences of the University of Zagreb (ERF) hosted two ASD-EAST pilot training sessions, one for specialist educators in special educational settings, and one for specialist educators supporting learners within mainstream and inclusive settings. Held on October 19 and 20, and on November 19 and [...]
In the framework of the ASD-EAST project, over 100 professionals, both specialist educators in special educational settings, and specialist educators supporting learners within mainstream and inclusive settings, have been training on special in two different pilot sessions in October and November 2019 in Cracow, Poland. See some pictures in our [...]
Name: Emilija Zafirova Petkov Profile: Special educator and rehabilitator Country: North Macedonia Why are you interested in the project? I am a special educator and rehabilitator and I work with children with different disabilities. Every child is an individual specific to himself or herself in a [...]
During the first fortnight of October 2019, a hundred of special educators and rehabilitators both from special and mainstream schools from all across North Macedonia participated at the training sessions organized in Kisela Voda by the NGO Blue Firefly, and the special school D-r Zlatan Sremec, in order to get [...]
From the 13 to the 15 of September 2019, ASD-EAST partner Autism-Europe held the 12th edition of its triannual International Congress in Nice, hosted by Autisme France. The ASD-EAST project partners from the University of Northampton Dr David Preece and Dr Ivana Lessner Listiakova had [...]
