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Every child on the Autism Spectrum is unique and different.
Sometimes it takes a village of experts to help a child overcome their challenges.
Here are some of the experts whom I highly respect and highly recommend.
Rita Gendelman
She has worked both in center-based OT environments and in private homes. Over the past 15 years, she has had the privilege to touch the lives of hundreds of children, each with different levels of social, emotional, physical and cognitive challenges.
Maria Frida Jacobs
Marilyn Chadwick
Gain 4 Parents
Parents of children on the autism spectrum who have been running successful home based programs to help our children develop and reach their full potential.
Core Needs NYC
Christiane Döhler
Game and Theatre Educator and Author.
Co-Founder Managing Director of the AuJA Spielräume gUG (h.b.) (charitable organization) as of 2012.
Education and support for children and young adults with autism. Active for companies, schools, kindergartens and in psychotherapy and ergotherapy practices from 1999.
Consultant for continued education on the subject of autism, team building, promoting creativity, promoting social competence and language acquisition.
Mother of an autistic child.
Deniz Döhler
Studied philosophy, German, English, and the aesthetics of music with concentration on becoming a teacher, and a focus on intercultural and anti-racist education, integration, and game and theatre education.
Active in schools in deprived areas of Berlin and Bremen since 1999, as well as in kindergartens, universities, socio-cultural institutions, companies and workshops for the disabled.
Speaker on the topics of autism, language acquisition, intercultural communication, innovation, improvisation and integration.
Co-prize winner of the Bremer Promotional Award for Integration (2008, 2nd place).
Father of an autistic child and assistant for individual cases for autistic children.
Continued education at the Berliner Institut für tiefenpsychologische und existentielle Psychotherapie (Berlin Institute for Depth and Existential Psychotherapy, or BITEP) as of 2012.
