OSHA program aims at progressing autistic children by diverting them as nearly as possible to the average normal aspects of social, communication, language and academic skills. This program started successfully in 2002. Nowadays, this program is applied successfully over many autistic children in the Specialized Child center, Alexandria, Egypt.

The criteria for inclusion in the OSHA program are:

First: the younger the age to start the better is the result (from 2-4 years old)

Second: full consent of parents for program

Thirdly: the program goes on for 11 months/ year for 1-3 years.

OSHA program starts by full neuro-psychometric assessment aiming for accurate diagnosis, assessing the severity of the disorder and giving base informations for future follow up.

The assessment includes:-DS- 4 TR criteria and CARS scoring for autistic children

Criteria of OSHA treatment program

1-      Severity of autism: for weekly credit hours of working

2-      social defect: for diversity of specialists

3-      language defect: diversity of plans

4-      Learning defect: diversity of training places

5-      Family role: recognition and involvement

The core of the OSHA program is: Early intervention in a Well-run program &“Multi-disciplinary team work is the key for helping autistic children to reach their potential

The presentation will include video recording of cases with autism before and after OSHA program application