 Besides creating CRITs all around the country, the CRIT system and the "Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México" (UAEM) signed an agreement in 2000 creating two bachelors-degree programs training professionals to work with children at the CRITs, and created the "Instituto Teletón de Estudios Superiores" (ITESUR) (located next to the first CRIT constructed).ITESUR is the only university in Mexico that grants degrees in occupational and physical therapy.In 2012 it was inaugurated in State of Mexico the "Centro Autismo Teletón" (CAT) which will help children with autism.