Helping Colombian children with disabilities

Matías is two years old and lives with his father and grandparents; He is a cheerful and sociable child, he loves to play with sand and vanilla ice cream. The child has hearing impairment with significant hearing loss since birth.

Matías requires constant treatment, although its condition hasn't cure, it can significantly improve your hearing with therapy. His family has found many barriers to access these treatments by the health system and for this reason, he is a beneficiary of our Foundation.

Thanks to the support of people like you, Matías's family receives guidance to strengthen the strategies given, stimulate and develop skills in the child, through the proposed activities and reinforcing therapeutic work at home, observing in Matías achievements such as:

- Produce many sounds, babbles and calls to his dad

- It is evident that he understands the dynamics of the situations of his surroundings.

- When people like his dad or his aunt ask you to produce animal sounds or some objects he does.

- Follow simple commands such as moving, pointing, throwing objects in different directions according to the instruction.

Thanks to the support received from people like you, Matías can continue his rehabilitation process, increase his auditory capacity and develop the language to interact in a better way with the environment and the loved ones around him.

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María has 8 years old, she enjoys painting in her spare time, sharing with her family and loving and caring for animals.  Also, she actually lives with her mother, grandmother and uncles in the municipality of Copacabana,(Colombia) she is diagnosed with cerebral edema due to birth trauma and expressive language disorder, mild mental retardation, she requires support with comprehensive rehabilitation and specialized consultations, the achievements of María  in the first half of the year have been:

In the reading and writing part the girl recognizes the vowels of her name and recognizes him with pictographic support, at the time of writing she does so with point tracking and is in the process of doing so without support. She answers simple questions of texts and short videos through the pictographic system and verbally.
Different activities are carried out to achieve the objectives in reading and writing such as, assemble the name letter by letter using pictograms to identify them, then they are written having a base, removing the visual support little by little, exercise is also used to connect points on the wall to assemble the name using strings to join it. For the recognition of the letters of the name, the fishbowl is used in order to fish the indicated letters, a game of grabbing or catching with the silhouette of a fomi hand different flowers that had letters and numbers glued. Vowel notebooks are worked on, in which pictograms were first, the vowel and then space for writing in order to make a cognitive process of vocal recognition, visually, in the whole word, on objects that represented it and Finally his writing.

The Patronato María Axiliadora Foundation has the consent of his family for the publication of his photo and diagnostic information in Global Giving. Thank you for allowing Maria to continue her health rehabilitation process and improve her quality of life.