ANA
DAY CENTER
The Ministry of Education and
Research financed 7 didactic positions in Ana Center, thus contributing
to the continuance of the specialized educational process. In 2003,
Ana Day Center continues to offer, daily in accordance to the structure
of the school year, following the boarding school schedule, between
8.30 – 16.00, to a number of 22 children, services of recovery,
education and social integration, through specialized activities like
training, speech therapy, kinesi-therapy, psycho-therapy and occupational
therapy. Also, 6 other children from other centers or educational
institutions benefit from these services.
Services offered for the children
with handicap, mental disabilities and their families, in Ana Day
Center, and the type of activities performed:
1.
Services of school education
Inside the Center there are 3 groups, each of an average of 7 children:
I-st, II-nd and III-rd form.
The preschool and school activities aim at realizing individualized
projects of education and recovery, on the basis of the evaluations
made by all the specialists in the Center. The individual pedagogic
project of the child is made by the educator and the pedagogue, together
with the co-ordinator of the center and it represents a structured
and distinct program, the progresses being in detail registered by
the pedagogue on the entire year’s period.
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Perceptive
education and reeducation
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Development
of language and communication
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Behavior
and social skills
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Sensory
and psycho-motor education
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Comprehension
of the environment
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Elements
of general knowledge
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Individual
and group games and possibilities of expressing
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Stimulation
of children’s autonomy
At
present, the pedagogic activity takes place in:
- three classrooms (for activities such as: mathematics, writing,
reading, environment knowledge, communication development).
A particular element of the educative
activities is the permanent search of better ways and adapted methods
in working with the children, to respond to heterogeneous nature of
the groups of children. There was also necessary a probing of the
rhythm of working with the children, adapted to their real possibilities.
2.
Services of recovery
The children follow programs of individualized
recovery, of 5 types:
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Kinesi-therapy
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Speech therapy
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Ergo-therapy
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Psycho-therapy
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Computer stimulation
The frecquency of recovery sessions
is of 2 times per week for each therapy.
Other children, that are included in
other centers or institutions, also come at Ana Center, for these
therapies.
The activities of recovery take place
in 4 rooms:
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The
room for kinesi-therapy
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The
room for speech therapy and psycho-therapy
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The
room for ergo-therapy (drawing, painting, modeling, household activities)
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The
room for computer stimulation, the teacher being a volunteer with
motor handicap, licensed in Psychology and Sociology.
3.
Services of supplementary training in the afternoons
This year, a new services was created,
of supplementary training, which takes place twice a week, on Tuesdays
and on Thursdays, between 16.00 and 17.30, and it consists in performing
activities with the children in the center with the purpose of consolidating
their skills and abilities.
4.
Services of integration and social skills
These services aim at the integration
of this category of children into society through forming social skills
and through creating the necessary conditions to an appropriate environment
for their development.
Among children that benefit from these
services there is an orphan, handicapped child, coming from the Center
of Placement Sfanta Ecaterina, and another child from our center who
goes, once a week, to no. 257 Kindergarten.
5.
Services of transportation
The access to Ana Day Center has been
made easier for the children since we bought a mini-bus in 2002. The
excursions that we organize with the children, the trips and every
outing are also possible, as we have this means of transport.
6.
Services of parents counseling
These activities focus on both family
sustenance and counseling, on problems related to having a child with
disabilities (meetings with the social worker, the psychologist and
the coordinator of the center) and the collaboration between the families
and the specialists, with a view to realizing the programs of education
and recovery of the children. More than that, the families meetings,
group sessions in the presence of the psychologists, have positive
results for their psyche.
This type of services is given a major
importance considering the fact that the families having children
with disabilities are somehow isolated, and that they have to face:
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The
lack of information about the handicap, disability and the possibilities
of recovery and education;
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Integration
into the every-day social life
5.
Services of material support for the families
With the occasion of special events,
like Christmas and Easter, occasional donations, the families get
material support, consisting in nutritive supplements, clothes etc.
and this is a real support considering their expenses and needs.
8.
Services of recreation during week-ends
Outings
have been done every month, at week-ends, in one or
two days excursions. The outings are public and, quite often, the
parents also participate.
In the center there were also entertaining
activities (puppet design, carnival, costumations, name-days celebration,
household activities).
