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Prof de Vries andi his global team has just been awarded substantial funding for the TANDem Project (Epowering Families through Technology: a mobile–health project to reduce the TAND identification and treatment gap).
2 Aril is World Autism Awareness Day and April is World Autism Awareness Month. This is a special day and month set aside when Member States of the United Nations are encouraged to take active measures to raise awareness about people with Autism Spectrum Disorder throughout the world.
Dr Liezl Schlebusch and Ms Sandy Klopper (director of Autism South Africa) attended the 2nd International Technical Consultation and Coordination Meeting on the World Health Organisation's Caregiver Skills Training Programme for families of children with developmental disabilities.
Two stakeholder workshops (one in the North West Province and one in Gauteng) were recently held as part of the DiamonD Families Study, which is a partnered venture between the Centre for Autism Research in Africa, the National Department of Social Development, and Autism South Africa.