Clinical and educational pathways in autism. Moving towards a virtuous collaboration between healthcare, schools and families
Giuseppe Maurizio Arduino
Treating Autism Spectrum Disorders requires health workers, families and schools to share objectives and intervention strategies. Education is the primary treatment for autism and the involvement of natural educators (parents) and professional educators (teachers) is essential. This principle should also be applied in clinical pathways, which, due to the importance of education in treating autism, must also be educational. In Piedmont, the school plays an important role in the implementation of a regional clinical pathway for autism, which is divided into different phases. For children with autism attending nursery school, the phase of treatment defined as «integrated» involves the sharing of objectives and strategies in order to create an individual project. A web platform (Integrated Platform for Autism) has been set up to support this process, allowing the educational project of each child to be shared and information and resources for training to be uploaded to the network.
Keywords
Autism, clinical pathways, web platform.
