DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

Investigative journalist Nuria Piera called supposed child neuroscientist Elizabeth Silverio’s bluff in an investigative report released on Saturday, 20 May 2023.

Silverio is a hardworking woman. She is a religious pastor but is mostly known for the child center, Centro Kogland she operated, where children with special needs, such as autism, were cared for.

After the investigative report aired, the media reported that Silverio was one of the selected consultants that assisted the Chamber of Deputies in preparing the bill to benefit children with autism.

After the airing of the investigative report, the Ministry of Public Health closed the Kogland Neurocognitive and Psychopedagogic Therapy Center. It announced that its director, Elizabeth Silverio Sillien, would be taken to justice for violations to the General Public Health Law 42-01. Silverio has owned up to having...