Nothing from the petition for children with autism

"We currently have a complete lack of interest from the state to solve this issue or to raise it. We collected 6.000 signatures, we had a constitutive hearing in the Assembly in February, and none of the participants in that hearing were surprised by everything we said."

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Even a year after the petition of the parents of children with developmental disorders, dysphasia, Down's syndrome and autism regarding the improvement of the health system, equipment, services and professional staff, nothing has been done. In Colors of the Morning, the mother and initiator of last year's petition, Tina Đukanović, who received the support of 6000 citizens in six days, pointed out that the state has not responded adequately to their requests so far.

"We currently have a complete lack of interest from the state to solve this issue or to raise it. We collected 6.000 signatures, we had a constitutive hearing in the Assembly in February, and none of the participants in that hearing were surprised by everything we said. They are well aware of what kind of After that, it was proposed to hold a control hearing, but it did not happen. What we wanted was to act on the state to comply with the law, but nothing is happening functional change in space, we have been standing in place for decades," Đukanović pointed out.

We remind you that the parents mentioned in the aforementioned petition the establishment and opening of the Institute, which will provide daily speech and language therapy and defectology treatments in Podgorica, and is capable of responding to the demands and numbers of the growing number of children with the above-mentioned problems.

Then, the establishment of the Faculty of Special Education and Rehabilitation - in order to have a future base of professionals from our country and to solve the problem of deficit occupations of speech therapists, defectologists, somatopathologists, audiologists and other professionals from this field. In the end, the establishment of a specialized Fund, within the Health Fund, which is primarily intended for children and persons with special needs for assistance and whose health condition requires urgency in the preservation of health.

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