Zofia Borska-Mądrzycka

I graduated with a degree in psychology from SWPS University (in 2004) and also completed a postgraduate course in early intervention at the Academy of Special Education (in 2011). For many years, I have been undergoing intensive training in the field of assessment and therapy; amongst other things, I am one of the first certified ADOS-2 assessors in Poland. In the field of screening for infants and very young children, I trained under Prof. Cheryl Dissanayake, who developed the SACS tool, and I also completed STAT training under Prof. Wendy Stone. I also have experience of workshop-based work with teenagers and young adults with autism in the area of social skills training (the PEERS pilot programme at the Mary&Max Association). Furthermore, I have participated in training courses on the most well-researched therapeutic methods: ESDM (in Poland) and PRT (in Scotland). I have 15 years’ experience in diagnosis, gained, amongst other places, within the highly competent teams at the Adesse Centre and the Sotis Autism Therapy Centre.