Hello Everybody,

I'm living in Switzerland since more than two years but I'm new to this forum!!

I'm writing because I'm trying to find a job (or just some help!) for my girlfriend who is living in Italy and would like to move to join me!!

She graduated in Italy in Neuro and Psychomotor Therapy for kids. We are working on the conversion of her degree to a Swiss one. It's a degree that is provided in Switzerland as well (in Zurich and Geneva for sure) and it's very similar to other degrees you may be more familiar with, meaning Occupational Therapy and Ergotherapy.

She's working with different kind of disabled kids (e.g., with paralysis, learning disorders) since three years and she has quite lot of experience with autism as well (especially TEACCH method). She's also working in schools.

We don't know much at the moment about this field in Switzerland. Any kind of help would be very much appreciated....

If someone needs a person with such experience or can just address us somewhere, would be great!!

Thanks a lot in advance to everybody!!

Hello Poldany, welcome to the forum.

If you search the forum you'll find that there are a few threads posted already on the subject that might be of help:

http://www.englishforum.ch/tags.php?tag=autism

Thanks for the hint!
I'll have a look!!

Hello there, there are plenty schools in Switzerland that cater to such children and they are called Heilpedagogische Sonderschulen. Here is a google search link...many of them have a website...
http://www.google.ch/search?hl=de&sa...f&aqi=&aql=&oq=

I wish you all the best.

I rather concentrated on "in Neuro and Psychomotor Therapy" in your post, as I do not know much about autism.
But I'm sure Google.ch can give some hints.

The Kinderspital has a rehab centre in Affoltern am Albis.

http://www.kispi.uzh.ch/Rehabilitationszentrum_en.html

This might also help you:

http://www.rehabellikon.ch/index.asp?lang=en&cat=101

Or

http://www.google.ch/search?hl=de&q=...tryCH&aq=f&oq=

Thanks a lot for all the useful links!!

Any ideas of possibilities that don't require to speak German?

Actually we are more looking in the French part of Switzerland or anyway for a position in which English is enough (we speak Italian, French and English).

BTW, how would you call in French the "Heilpedagogische Sonderschulen"?

Thanks really a lot to everybody!

École de pédagogie curative

Heilpädagogische Sonderschule

Maybe this one in Biel ? Just an idea...

Thanks a lot Allegra!!

We will look for something like that then!!

There is the Oakhill school in Nyon, helping English speaking children that have various learning difficulties.

I've checked out the website, looks very interesting!
We'll contact them!
Thanks a lot!

Hello,

we are a French family looking for a therapist for our 8-year old son, we are in Basel and we need someone ideally Wednesdays afternoons after 2.00 pm, some time on week-ends and possibly late afternoons Mon-Tues-Thur-Fri after 5.00 pm.

We can speak English but it is preferable to communicate in French with our son

Hello Tokyobasel,

thanks a lot for your reply! We would be very happy if we could help each other!!
Could you please tell us what your son is needing? If you prefer, we could provide you an email address and we can communicate privately.
Thanks a lot.

Poldany,
It won't help you yet because it's in the planning stages but there are proposals to build a European centre of excellence for autism in Switzerland.
http://www.autisme.ch/portail/attach...6avril2010.pdf

Hi Nev,

thanks a lot for the very good news! I hope it will work out! :-)