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The mayor of Cartagena, Pilar Barreiro, has been responsible for opening this morning the new Multisensory room and relaxation to improve the development of children with special needs.
The new facility is located at the Center for Child Development and Early Intervention (CDIAT) Virgen de la Caridad and she will receive treatment, many of the 260 small serving 6 years Astus (Guardianship Association of People with Disabilities).
In the event the mayor has been accompanied by the councilman l Member Service, Antonio Calderon, and participated Joaquín Barberá, president of Astus, Isolda Ventura, president of Foundation Ordesa, William Gartland, Deputy Director of Institutional Programs of Fundación Repsol, and Agustin Aguilera , Murcia Territorial delegate ONCE Foundation, among other representatives of the collaborating institutions Astus in this project.
The room is named after the late Professor Peter Paul Berry, known as Chuti, took the initiative has led to the construction of the multisensory room.
The Mayoress has sought to highlight the figure of Peter Paul Berry, one of those Cartagena that we go too soon, and that has made a heartfelt tribute, to uncover his widow with the plate in the room that bears his name.
The room, which has cost over 120,000 euros, was funded by the Fundació Ordesa, Fundación ONCE and Fundación REPSOL.
The direct beneficiaries of these facilities are children who need help in the process of learning through the senses.
Pilar Barreiro has also underlined the important work of Astus in and out of Cartagena and modern facilities including the new hall and will also serve as research area, to see how children work with different stimuli, and its evolution as can meals techniques and transferred to other centers, the mayor explained.
The room is for toddlers with disabilities for establishing an environment where control and manage the feelings that are going to perceive.
They provide individualized treatment to teach them to interpret and integrate the stimuli that are being played by the senses.
Therefore, the room is designed to manipulate and enhance lights, smells, tactile stimulation, etc.
NEW TECHNOLOGIES TO PROMOTE THE FIVE SENSES
Astus room meets the parameters of the type Snoezelen rooms that emerged in the Netherlands and of proven effectiveness to develop stability in the sense, essential to proper motor development, cognitive and social development.
The room includes facilities to stimulate the five senses of the young as bubble columns and fiber optic screens for visual stimulation apparatus for speech therapy speech recognition for auditory stimulation, a lobby for the stimulation of balance and Whirlpool bed under a starry sky and connected to music for the body stimulation, auditory and visual.
Guardianship Association of People with Disabilities (Astus) is a nonprofit organization born of the union of families in the Shire.
It takes more than 40 years providing various services ranging from early childhood to school or home support to improve the quality of life of people with intellectual disabilities and their families.
In addition, Astus up with 26 other entities of the Federation of Community Organizations for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities and Cerebral Palsy, FEAPS Region of Murcia, which represents more than 3,000 families.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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