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A day center for children with SER, in which they will benefit from the services of a multidisciplinary team: psychologists, pedagogues, speech therapists, physiotherapist, support teacher. NGO will offer physiotherapy and medical recovery services, ABA Applied Behavioral Analysis therapy, speech therapy, sensory stimulation, canine therapy and art therapy.
Project proposes to change the parents'' attitudes towards the child''s situation, his disability, by changing the parental position.
35 teachers / teachers will to be trained in the project in terms of individualized approach to the child''s needs starting from the current potential for mental, physical, social development and the level of development of motor, so that they to become trainers in turn.
The project aims to improve school outcomes for children with SER, including by providing teachers with key information about various learning disabilities and barriers encountered by the child and how to overcome the learning difficulties that arise from them, as well as measures that can be taken to adapt the environment in the group room and in the kindergarten in order to overcome the barriers in the learning process, educational strategies. Increasing the quality of life of these children through psychological therapies, speech therapy, sensory integration, but also developing the skills of children with various disabilities or learning problems to meet the educational needs to integrate with equal opportunities with other children in public schools. In addition, the project aims to create a framework for acquiring parenting skills / abilities / attitudes. Finally, the project aims to increase the visibility of the Say YES to the Life Association at the county level, as well as to increase professionalism and promote quality standards in the activities carried out within the association, so that in the next year we can run permanent aid programs. children with SER.
Summary of project results
In Romania there are about 70,000 children with ESC. Less than half of them are enrolled in special schools, and there is only 1 support teacher for every 150 students with disabilities. The school curriculum is not adapted for children with disabilities, there is no accessibility and assistive technology, teachers do not have the necessary training to manage these students, therapies for children with disabilities are financially expensive. Within the project a day centre for children with ESC has been opened, where they benefit from the services of a multidisciplinary team: psychologists, pedagogues, speech therapists, physiotherapist, instructor-educator for resocialization.
Since February, the centre has received the license to operate, being accredited in accordance with the provisions of Law No 197/2012 on quality assurance in the field of social services, with subsequent amendments and additions. I am here! Within the project, 45 children attended remedial courses, 47 received speech therapy sessions, 28 sensory therapy sessions and 54 received personal development sessions. The sessions followed the following objectives: development of emotional intelligence, self-awareness, self-knowledge, mastery of emotions, intrinsic motivation, empathy and motor stimulation. psycho-motor stimulation, practice of moral skills, development of attention, solving simple problems, development of memory, stimulation of speech, development of creativity and imagination.
Also 59 parents attended the parental counselling programme and 35 teachers attended the teacher training programme. Within the project the necessary equipment for a sensory room was purchased, a set of governance procedures, operational procedures, code of ethics were developed. A FB page were built, enjoying a high visibility reflected in the large number of participants in the webinars (115).