TOHUM - Tohum Türkiye Otizm Erken Tanı ve Eğitim Vakfı (Tohum)

Tohum activities:

• Tohum Foundation Special Needs School with 128 students coming full time or part time and benefiting from a taylor made learning environment; 50% of the children are able to join thereafter an inclusive school
• Vocational school for youth between 15 & 18 y old where they can learn about Housekeeping, textile and tourism and be provided with Internships thereafter
• My Tablet Speaks 4 Me!: Tablet as a method of teaching to the students with autism, their teachers and parents
• Tohum Autism Education Portal with free information for parents - 12.000 members
• Inclusion seminars - 20 schools, 13.000 students

Vision: To Ensure

• Early diagnosis of “Autism Spectrum Disorder and other Pervasive Development Disorders (PDD)”
• Fulfillment of health and educational needs of diagnosed children and their families in line with world standards.

Mission

• Meet knowledge and support needs of children, with autism and other PDD, and their families in order to enable them to sustain their lives according to available contemporary standards, 
• Ensure early and intensive special education for children with autism and other PDD and their subsequent placement in the least restrictive, inclusive educational environment,
• Encourage the training of trainers to deliver the necessary education on autism and other PDD, and to ensure the conduct of researches and realization of education,  
• Support and improve health and education services delivered on autism and other PDD throughout the country,
• Achieve world standards in screening, detailed evaluation and diagnosis processes on autism and other PDD and their dissemination throughout the country,
• Raise awareness on autism and other PDD