The activities of the first consultative forum for autism, organized by the King Salman Center for Disability Research, were launched under the generous patronage of His Royal Highness Prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the King Salman Center for Disability Research, for a period of one day.
The Executive Director-General, Director of Research and Training at the Center, Dr. Ola Muhyiddin Abu Sukkar, indicated that the online registration website has registered more than two hundred Saudi families for children and youth with autism to take advantage of this forum, which will focus on activating the role of the family to train and rehabilitate their children with autism. The autism spectrum, as they are the main pillar of the educational and training process.
Parents'' families will have consultants and specialists in this field, including the Executive Director of the National Program for Growth and Behavior Disorders at the Ministry of Health, Dr. Samira Al-Ghamdi, and a consultant clinical psychologist specializing in the field of family and childhood Dr. Amal Al-Yamani, Assistant Professor of Special Education at Taif University Dr. Fahd Al-Nimri, and a medical consultant Child and adolescent psychiatrist Dr. Bashair Al-Marri, consultant pediatric neurosurgeon Dr. Hisham Al-Dhalaan, consultant professor at the Department of Pediatric Dentistry at King Saud University Dr. Ibtisam Morshed, and a senior specialist in speech and language at the Autism Research Center at the Specialist Hospital Professor Malak Al-Ramadi, and the occupational therapist at Autism Research Center Professor Shahd Al-Khalifah In addition to Professor Nada Al-Sajan, Director of Training and Academic Affairs at the King Salman Center for Disability Research, and the mother of the young Hattan (23 years), with autism. Dr. Ola stressed that the center will work to organize this forum To be an annual event coinciding with the center''s participation in the International Day of Autism, which falls on the second of April of each year. The center will work on concerted efforts and the participation of various parties. In order to include, beside the local experts, a group of scholars in this field from different parts of the world.
