Helping Colombian children with disabilities

Meet Susana, she is 6 years old, was born with Down syndrome. She is a little girl with a good sense of humor, is a joker and is very interested in investigating things that happen around her.  Susana has a big cognitive potential, has shown independence when performing different activities like eating, dressing and undressing herself.

Susana is able to mimic tongue and lip movements, understands situations that are presented by graphic support point objects and people by name.

During this year has achieved balance and coordinative skills to facilitate better gross motor coordination through exercises with balls and balancing herself on uneven surfaces and  performs activities independently.

In hydrotherapy, independence is accomplished, playing with water, performing dives and moving around the pool with floats independently.

From the area of musical stimulation has successfully track rhythmic sequences, maintaining order, pulse and time. Make smooth and strong hints according to the musical context. Participates in the construction of melodies, is cheerful and participates in rhythmic choreographic work type. Susana has improved her skills to move into small, medium and large spaces. In the melodic aspect, it´s evidenced that Susana loves sounds produced by tubular instruments.

Thank you for helping Susana with her rehabilitation, she is doing great!

Links:

• http://www.fundacionpatronato.org

We are grateful to inform that the 12 children with hearing loss have improve their social and academic performance.  They understand and express their opinions or ideas to multiple parties, they also show motivation to communicate and participate in educational activities, always using natural signs accompanied by sound and vocalization words when these are familiar to them.

They understand directions involving skills to recall events; strive to articulate adequately the words to describe the situations.  The teachers and relatives also notice that the children are more independent in their oral responses; their vocabulary has increased each day over sessions, which is largely due to the support given by their families.

Samuel is five years old, he has improved in all aspects; he asks questions and give significant contributions in school activities, he uses a much higher vocabulary for his age, has good memory. Samuel has to develop  fine and gross motor skills.

Properly handle the pencil to write
Recognizes the sequence and narrates the story: I am Samuel
Recognize the vocabulary of body parts and clothing 

Discriminate between presence and absence of sound.
Demonstrates awareness of sound to have a conditioned response.
Responds to the presence of loud speech sounds (syllables or words)
Discriminate familiar sounds 
He says some isolated words accompanied by the corresponding action

The grandmother as the primary caregiver, is committed to the given guidelines and recommendations, which has significantly favored the development of Samuel. For her diligence, responsibility and commitment, very good results are expected in the socio-emotional development of Samuel, who has been enriched by meaningful experiences offered by his family and the Foundation.

Links:

• http://www.fundacionpatronato.org