Autism Spectrum Disorders-ASD is developmental disorder of which symptoms show up in the three years of life affecting the formation of social and communication skills. Autism shows itself in three fields of disabilities ; social interaction, language and communication,interest and behaviours. These disabilities cause social interaction problems, communication problems, limited or repetitive interest and behaviours. As a result of many studies conducted on the treatment of autism,it s proved that the best treatment method is education. Thus, the child’s education should begin as earliest as possible and it’s necessary to ensure the family participation in education as the most important place which learning takes place is home. Increasing the knowledge and skills the families who have an autistic child is not only important for child development but also for the parents’ psychological and social health.This project aims to create a support program meeting various needs of families with autistic child while gathering the developed specialities in different areas by the project partner institutions. The target audience are the families who have children with autism living in the project partner countries. The final beneficiaries of these studies which are made for the families are private educational institutions, diagnostic and treatment centers,the policy developer institutions special education field,teachers, nongovernmental organizations and the parents who are ready to create awareness for early diagnosis and intervention. The total duration of the project is 24 months that will be carried out in Turkey, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Romania and Austria.In the first meeting of this project, a needs assessment survey will be created with taking into consideration the opinions of 10 experts. Following the practice in each country ,a needs analysis report will be created and will be evaluated in the second meeting. Based on the prominent concerns in the needs analysis report, 5 different training modules will be prepared under the titles of education, health, social rights and entitlements, legal rights, and psychosocial support and 50 parenting education will be provided for each project partner. Evaluating the results of this application which targets %70 success an international conference will be held in Turkey. As project deliverables a booklet published in 5 languages, website, posters, brochures and conference are targeret. The visibility studies will be carried out continuously from the beginning and the project details will be broadcasted in five different media tool.

The care and education of the child with special educational needs in infancy and first childhood largely belong to the family. The family members who know the characteristics of his child better than anyone, are considered as the most effective individuals in the success of special education practices. For this reason, providing expert in order to support families, to answer their questions, to find solutions to their problems, to overcome learning deficiencies which are arising from the inadequacy of the child at the maximum level and to ensure the participation of the society from early ages by revealing the strengths in the child are the factors that make early intervention crucial.Our proposal focuses on families with 0-6 aged of mentally handicapped children and related adult trainers. The most important reason is that individuals with disabilities greatly increase their mental development through early diagnosis and the correct special education program in early childhood. For instance; unfortunately, autism is a lifelong problem. But thanks to early diagnosis, slowing the course and controlling the situation is possible. In the studies conducted, it was proved that the autism symptoms showed a 50% decrease in children with early diagnosis and an accurate education and care program.Based on this background, project aims are; to teach families with the best effective methods of early childhood special education (focus on 0-6 aged with mentally retarded such as autism), to give competence them in order to manage early intervention programs, to establish programs according to their and their child’s needs, to guide and encourage them in order to reach more materials and improving key competences.Although our primary beneficiary is families, not only them but also adult teachers/counselors such as school counselor, guidance counselors/teachers, special educators will benefit from this project. It is aimed that adult trainers increase their skills, share the best practices, know wider usage of early childhood special education and early intervention programs, develop new modules or programs according to needs.Within the scope of our project, activities such as international meetings, multiplier events, trainer training mobility, dissemination meetings, seminars, workshops will be organized. Many internal and external participants will be included in these activities.Personnel from all partners will attend international meetings, which is the most important activity that will ensure the success of our project. In these meetings to be held in each country, 3 personnel from our project leader institution and 2 from other institutions will be selected as participants. In addition, there are some addition staff will participate the project in order to develop Intellectual Outputs. The task distribution is made according to the capabilities and experience of the institutions. Our project has three main intellectual outcomes which are listed below:1- Comprehensive Report - Ebook2- Innovative Curriculum of ECI3- E-Learning PlatformSincan RAM will lead IO-1, FHZ (Serbian Partner) will lead IO-2 and EU&PRO (Czech Partner) will lead IO-3. In addition, EU&PRO will be host of LTT Activity which related with Online Education Methodology & Family Psychology Management Methodology.With all these activities, we will obtain impacts on participants, organizations, target groups and other relevant parties;-Participants will enable our participants to develop their management skills to a higher level in their careers.-Project Activities will increase their professional knowledge and skill levels. They will improve their professional knowledge of intervention methods in early childhood significantly. Our trainers will become familiar with innovative teaching methods with the help of the short-term training mobility they will attend.-The activities will increase the self-esteem of the participants; their motivations will be renewed, and their behavior and attitudes will be positively affected.- Outputs to be produced with a strong partnership structure will significantly increase the institutional capacities of institutions. Organizational structures will strengthen and their quality will improve.- They will obtain diversity in their educational content.- All of our institutions will have the opportunity to expand their communication and cooperation networks by increasing their visibility and reputation across Europe- Thanks to the educational content to be developed, families will be able to apply early intervention methods to their children. Besides, these educational materials will provide psychology support.- A holistic awareness will be raised by conveying the project results of all institutions to their respective stakeholders. This will shape the steps to be taken and the interest in such projects will increase.