Ege Special Children Foundation &I sildayan Special Children Education and Rehabilitation Center
The chairman of the board of KaryaAgro, Ms. Rabia Tekince, has established the Ege Autism Association and Isildayan Special Education and Rehabilitation Center in 2015. Since her son has been diagnosed with autism, she has been carrying out researches as well as communicating with individuals and organizations that perform health, education, and alternative studies regarding autism.
Isildayan Special Education and Rehabilitation Center is an innovative institution which aims to provide support in the early childhood period in consideration of the development areas that individual needs, based on modern and scientific practices.
By taking interactions and communications based programs into consideration, activities in the fields of language and speech therapy, ergo therapy, special education, psychology, painting, music, and physical education are planned to depend on the children’s need at the institution. Simultaneously, necessary educational and psychological support is provided to families and schools. Besides required arrangements are provided in home-school settings.
The interdisciplinary model that takes evidence-based scientific methods as the focus point is used in education and evaluation processes. A complete education is targeted via educating the families and increasing the social awareness with social responsibility projects that Ege Autism Association organizes every year.