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Reputation of ISADD’ effective approach to autism spread. Parents from neighbouring countries brought their children to Perth for our assessments and therapy, while our therapists travelled to New Zealand, Indonesia and Singapore to meet requests pouring in from parents there. In response to the robust demand for our services, ISADD expanded into other countries including the establishment of our Singapore office in 2000. Today, we are a major provider of special needs services throughout Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Europe. The diversity that has emerged across our offices drives our accountability and adaptation of best practices. ISADD continues to maintain its active participation in global conferences to support and adopt the latest research in the treatment of autism and ABA methods.

In 1987, two experienced practitioners from Perth, Jenny Bolland and Jura Tender, had the opportunity to study and work closely under Dr Ivar Lovaas at the groundbreaking Young Autism Project in the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). When they returned to Australia, Jenny and Jura decided to continue the important work in autism they had begun at UCLA. In 1994, they registered their partnership under the name of Intervention Services for Autism and Developmental Delay (ISADD) and combined their expertise in early behavioural intervention services for young children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. At a time when autism was not well understood and often misdiagnosed, ISADD took on the roles of advocacy, education and shaping diagnostic procedures and therapy. ISADD spearheaded the use of Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA), along with Discrete Trial Training (DTT), the use of visual augmentation of language by using pictographic system (Compic and PECS) in the teaching of language. Our use of ABA has since become the intervention of choice for persons with developmental delay and/or autism.