About TRIAD

TRIAD began in 2005 as a part-time organization. At this stage Melanie and Paola worked on an extremely small scale, mostly utilizing their afternoons, evenings and weekends to consult with clients, research ABA therapy and begin setting strategies into place to effectively run the organization.

Due to the overwhelming response and desperate need in KZN for intervention services for children with ASD, both Melanie and Paola resigned their full-time Special Education posts at the end of 2005, and began working full-time for TRIAD. TRIAD began to grow at a pace, and we now have an early intervention group of 8 tots, a Teen group of 7 teens, and a High Support group of 4 children, as well as an additional 7 children that see us for afternoon therapy. We are growing at a rate of on average two new students every month.

We have, to date, trained dozens of parents, carers and some professionals in teaching/working with children with ASD. We have set up numerous home/classroom programmes to help children with ASD more fully into family/school/community life. We continue to update and monitor these programmes on a regular basis. Since our inception, we have received a never-ending stream of phone calls from parents desperate for intervention for their ASD child, and have barely had one week in the past year that we have not had a meeting with these parents. Unfortunately, a large portion of these parents cannot pay the fees necessary in order to keep our organization running.

Our private therapy practice continues to grow and thrive at a startling rate, and new parents meet with us on almost on a daily basis to learn more about out organization and to seek the help that they need. Parents from the Pinetown, Kloof, Verulum, Umlazi, Tongaat, Amanzimtoti and Richards Bay, and recently from as far afield as Nigeria, contact us to try and gain some insight, knowledge and means of intervention for their children. Although we are currently only based in the Highway area, we try our best to establish therapy guidelines/home programmes/training for all these parents, as many are so desperate that they don’t know where else to turn to.