We were founded in 2007 with the aim of providing professional help and support to children with autism and those living in their immediate and wider environment.

In Hungary we are the only NGO to provide diagnostic testing for autism spectrum disorder according to international protocols, IQ assessment, autism-specific development and school preparation for children aged 2-18 years. For the target group concerned, we organise consultations with parents and teachers, parent training, sibling groups, ADOS training,  lectures, sensitisation and autism-friendly sessions, autism-friendly programmes for social integration. Our staff are nationally known and recognised professionals with many years of experience (15 people), who carry out 6 diagnostic examinations per month and provide individual, pair or group development for nearly 100 children per month.

Since 2011 – on the World Autism Day – we have been organising a nationwide “Blue Balloon” (now called Blue Wind Swirl) walk in the centre of Budapest, entitled “Walk for Autism”, which was held for the 11th time in 2022. With the support of the Equal Opportunities of Persons with Disabilities Non-profit Ltd., we organised an international conference, an autism-friendly theatre performance, and produced the first 4 elements of a series of publications for children with autism aged 6-12 on preventing/preventing contemporary abuse.

We have participated in the professional implementation of the EightPoints project: in the preparation of the methodology of integrated leisure programmes, in ADOS training, in the professional work related to the autism-friendly programmes of the Equal Opportunities of Persons with Disabilities Non-profit Ltd. In December 2021, with the support of FOF2020, we opened Hungary’s first Autism-Friendly Museum, the Museum of Fables, which won the civil award in the best cooperation category in 2022. spectry.org), Hungary’s first website specifically designed for young people with special/atypical educational needs to teach them the basics of programming in a discreet, playful way. Great care has been taken to design the platform to be motivating, safe and enjoyable, while retaining the most important elements of the exciting world of video games for a flow experience, and minimising stressors.

Our future plans:
Our Foundation’s services are constantly evolving in line with professional development, social changes and parents’ needs. In the school year 2022-23, in addition to the existing individual, pair and group social-communication training, behavioural therapy, pre-school and sibling groups, we intend to further expand our child psychiatric services and personalised parent training. We are planning to organise the basic and advanced training of floortime therapy in Hungary, one of the internationally recognised methods for the development of children with autism, and to start accreditation of our training programmes for sensitisation and professionals and parents. Thanks to the theoretical and practical experience gained in the development of the Autism Friendly Story Museum and the professional guide, we are working on the possibilities of making further cultural and public institutions autism-friendly, and on the compilation of a programme for sensitisation and training of staff working in these institutions. We are looking for funding to create video modelling tools to expand the developmental toolkit for children with autism, currently available only in English, as an easy-to-use, innovative developmental tool for professionals and parents, in line with the needs of the age.

In the 2020-21 academic year, we continued our cooperation with NGOs (Murmo, Another Way, Our World Foundation, Epreskert Development Centre, Ginko House), which are active in Hungary in the development and testing of children and young people with autism (BHRG Foundation, Mályvakék Psychology and Special Education), and we also joined their professional programmes.