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        -  Training & Education Program
        -  Early Intervention Program
        -  Youth House Program
        -  Summer Camping
        -  Swimming Program
        -  Thursday club Program
        -  Family Consult
        -  Assessment & Diagnosing
 
Training & Education Program: .
 
- The morning school program considers the first programs of the center. This program presents in the morning for Autistic children as other normal children done as a stage to merge them together in the future.
- This program presents in scientific and educational bases to appropriate the autistic child. When the child joins to the Center, he/she assessed to determine his/her abilities and join him/her in an appropriate class with his/her age and abilities. Then we put a suitable educational plan for each case according to the abilities of the case. This plan applies and follows-up during the school year and discussed the house-based plan parts with child family in interval periods to realize the agreed goal between the Center and the family (when the child in the Center) and cooperate with family to complete training plan in house and school.
- The Morning program includes many activities, which aim to achieve the drawn aims in the individual educational plan. These Activities includes swimming; sports that works to light the hyper moving activity and power of some cases; computer & reading activities that aim to train them on the updated techniques; Training on future vocations appropriate the age and its scientific developments; various academic activities that aim to provide them (according to each case abilities) with different sciences like reading, Mathematics and Sciences; or the simple principles of listening and concentration that qualifies him/her later to get different information. These in addition to the different technical activities which supreme the human spirit & taste like drawing and manual technical works and the outdoor trip activities that include the communication of children with the different state-Utilities and see the activities presented by the society may in amusements places or as different services.
 
Early Intervention Program: .
 
It 's an early intervention and rehabilitation program. This program founded in 1996/97 school year, as a result of increasing the students' waiting list and whom the center can't involve in the morning program. This may back to the less of the trained human cadres or the capacity of the building. To serve a great number of autistic children, the center assesses the child when joining the center and prepare a dense training program for him/her according to his/her abilities. This program follows-up with family to apply the home-based program to ensure the child adjustment with the routine and the school system in the center. Also this program aims to discover the abilities and capacities of the child. After passing the child of this training period successfully and when there is an empty scholar seat in the center, he/she joins the morning program.
 
Youth House Program: .
 
The Youth House Program of Kuwait Center for Autism opened in the year 2000, as a result of some children needs to a dense training program may to treat some behaviors, to develop the abilities of these children on some vocational skills, or self-depending through distributing the homework among them. This program continues after directly finishing the morning program and till 7.00 PM. This program started successfully in its first experimental year, that encouraged continuing this program in the following years by giving the chance to great number of students to join it. In this program, the center qualifies the students to self-depending and future vocation. The outcomes of the workshop of the primary year were prepare the challenge peppers for the Center and pots' liquid soap those sold in the second charitable market if the center and both of them express the challenge of disability and insist to self-proofing.
 
Summer Camping: .
 
- As a first initiative in Kuwait, Kuwait center for Autism introduced its first summer camping in 1997. This summer camping includes an organized fun, and amusing programs; and educational programs. This in addition to the activities of swimming, Computer, arts, sports, outdoor trips and vocational workshops and other various fun programs that help autistic child to spend his/her summer holiday in an organized climate.
- The Center first experiment was by accepting children with Dawn syndrome in the fourth summer camping 2000, of Kuwait center for Autism. Summer camping works to boost the autistic child' s social communication by merging them with children with Dawn syndrome to help autistic children from strengthening their poor points and the power points of children with Dawn syndrome. This is the first step towards merging with the surrounded society and other classes.
- The acceptance of summer camping was not limited to the center students but also accepted the autistic children and the children with Dawn syndrome from different autistic schools and the other interested institutions of children with special need.
- Students from Arabian Gulf states and Different Arab countries e.g. Syria for many sequence years, had participated in the summer camping of Kuwait Center For Autism.
 
Swimming Club:.
 
Annually in the summer holiday, Kuwait Center for Autism organizes an evening swimming program for the autistic children, children with Dawn Syndrome, and their mates and friends. In this program there are special days for boys and others for girls. This program, which supervised by male and female trainers, is specialized for learning swimming to the autistic children. This program contributes the child to give up the extra moving power and teach him/her many benefits moving skills. This fu8n program is a step towards merging the autistic children with other children in the surrounded society.
 
Thursday Club Program: .
 
Kuwait Center for Autism created Thursday Club program in the school year 1999/2000. It's a creativity program organized by specialists and prepared to help the autistic children to spend a fun weekend with their mates. Also this program help the autistic children's parents to achieve their outdoor obligations without thinking of their children burdens.
 
Family Consultations: .
 
Kuwait center for autism offers the individual consultation services to the parents of the autistic children. After they reserving a consulting time, the center determines a suitable time for meeting the psychologist to answer all their questions about their problems with their autistic children and how to deal with these problems.
 
Also the Center offers consulting service through telephone, fax, e-mail, and post to the parents and specialists from any Arab Nations. Specialists reply to the daily postal, e-mail and calls from Kuwait and other Gulf & Arab states. In replies, they answer about all their questions aiming to serve the autistic children and their parents anywhere.
 
Assessment & Diagnosing: .
 
Kuwait Center for autism by cooperation with the center of the hereditary diseases, offers Assessment and diagnosing services to all autistic children. The medical tests operated in the center of the hereditary diseases, and the academic assessment & psychological tests operated in Kuwait Center for Autism. Then, the parents receive a medical report of the case and recommendations that help both parents and other interested from therapists, teachers or other schools in dealing with the child. Also the Center offers to many cases from Kuwait and outside and during the year, a behavior-adjusting plan to the students whom suffering from some behaviors.