An intensive specialist programme is offered one-to-one to children who present as having autistic spectrum disorder, and their parents. These children experience significant difficulty in relating and communication.
The process of”relating”happens naturally for most mothers/fathers and babies from birth. When the child has a disability in the area of relating and communicating, this process breaks down.

The relating and communicating programme offers the opportunity to isolate the significant aspect of the child/primary caregiver relationship – the language of shared interactions. We know that within this intimate context each member, mother/father and child, has the opportunity to communicate to and with each other. This programme encourages a sensitivity to the childs behaviour which creats the ‘shared moments’. These ‘shared moments’, experienced and observed within the framework of this specialist programme, become the platform to develop the way to help each child learn to communicate and connect with his/her world – and the process of relating and communicating begins.

“I knew my child for the first time. He seemed to open up and I could see him. The relief is enormous”

comment from a parent.