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International organisation's representative on visit to Moldova

17:25 | 14.11.2014 Category: Official

Chisinau, 14 November /MOLDPRES/- Following an invitation by First Lady Margareta Timofti, Assistant Director of Public Health Research at Autism Speaks international organization Amy Daniels was on a fact-collecting visit to Chisinau on 12-13 November, the presidential press service has reported.

The visit was carried out as a result of Margareta Timofti’s participation in an annual conference on autism from New York in September 2014. She had a meeting with co-founders of the organisation Suzanne and Bob Wright. The heads of the association expressed willingness to provide support to improve quality life and social inclusion of disabled people from Moldova. The participants in the event agreed on implementing in Moldova joint projects for the benefit of children suffering from autism and their families.

Amy Daniels held talks with representatives of the NGOs and organizations providing services in the field, as well as a group of parents of the children suffering from autism in order to identify problems they face.

Also, Daniels met representatives of the Health Ministry, Education Ministry, Labour, Social Protection and Family Ministry and discussed the services the disabled children receive.

Daniels visited the gymnasium No 2 from Chisinau, having 31 children in need, including 9 children with autism, as well as special school for disabled children No 6 from Chisinau.

At the end of the visit, Daniels had a meeting with Margareta Timofti and UNICEF Representative in Moldova Nune Mangasaryan to unveil the study’s conclusions.

The official was impressed about the achievements made by Moldova in disabled children’s inclusion in regular schools, as well as about the good cooperation set between the NGOs operating in autism and the Education Ministry.

The organisation’s representative recommended that the NGOs operating in the field of autism to unite efforts, and the relevant ministries to set up an interministerial committee, which should also include representatives of the NGOs and/or parents on the matter.

The identified needs are related to training specialists in discovering and early diagnosis of autism cases, training non-specialists to be able to interact with children with autism. Also, it is needed that the Health Ministry should become member of the South-East European Autism Network (SEAN) for exchange of experience and consultations.

Margareta Timofti thanked Daniels for the organisation’s intention to back the children with autism and their families from Moldova. “I hope we could implement projects for the benefit of children with autism from my country”, she concluded.

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