Today I find it useful to publish the report of psychomotrist Loredana Manenti, operator of the Center for Visual Rehabilitation of Vercelli, on the refresher course held at the foundation approach Multisensory Robert Hollman in recent months.
FINAL REPORT
Refresher Course was held at the Foundation R. Hollman Centre - advice and support for the development of children with visual impairment Cannero Riviera (VB) for a total of 5 modules of 3 days each (Ott: / March 2008) followed by a training period of one week (April 2008). The center is
Founded in 1979 following a bequest from a benefactor Dutch with the intent to build a pilot center for advanced medical and social recovery of children with visual impairment in total gratuity of sevices offered.
The hotel's main target is the round care for children with visual impairments sometimes associated with important plurihandicap.
The rehabilitation treatments are offered to the child with her parents in an environment that facilitates psychologically suitable to express the best of its capabilities. He tries to act both on the preventive / enable, and therapy / rehabilitation.
An early start is a guide and support budget for parents who are accompanied in the delicate and tortuous process of growth of the child through a constant listening. In addition, insights, tools and facilitation where necessary direct intervention aimed at rehabilitation of the child.
Specifically it is an early start (0-5 years) delicate and crucial stage of the cycle of life that accompanies the disabled child and his parents. The intervention offered uses a constant mo toring of these early stages of growth of the child intended to promote mutual understanding and empathic listening difficulties of the new family through a residential stay for a period of 3 weeks, followed by a further stay of week. Parallel the aforesaid course, can be suggested days of observation / evaluation for a functional framework for the development or monitoring of the latter. For children in the area will be pursued outpatient treatments targeted and aimed at the completion of the proposed rehabilitation activities to one's community services.
These were a bit 'over the premises of which were followed in the specific course content focused multi-sensory approach with children who are blind pluridisabili.
E 'was divided into two parts: theoretical
· supported by video and slide projections on some
° maintains with the demonstration using of the tools used for sensory stimulation.
very interesting from my point of view, the presentation of the first two methods based on stimulation of the basal Prof; Frolich introduced by the therapist Teresa Vysocka with practical examples on different postures to be performed with children with plurihandicap.
pity that his involvement was limited to two modules of the course that were not enough to study a subject so vast and important for all of us who work with this type of user.
The second methodology based on a proposal for Snoezelen multisensory method, which is still unknown and not applied in Italy, was born intuition and professionalism of two Dutch therapists who have attempted to break away from traditional therapeutic activities. Its name comes from two Dutch words "SNUFFELEN" (browse, search out, explore), and "DOEZELEN (nap, relax).
The intervention was originally intended in particular to severely disabled, who have had positive feedback on several levels. It 'was applied later to other types of users to which it was necessary to provide a relaxed and full of sensory information base.
The goal is to help the person to feel good at what he does. The room where this intervention is practiced is furnished with cushions where you can sit back and relax and is enhanced by stimuli vibrating proposed visual flashing lights or disseminated, or produced by spot lights, aromas and everyday culture (like the scent of chocolate and coffee) and otherwise as the essences of herbs.
These sensory information, may be associated also proposed buds.
As background music, soothing sounds and melodies accompany these proposals and creating the environment.
Every person involved in this experience can take what they need starting from what can be done, fostered by the extreme flexibility of stimuli.
In such an environment can encourage attention, exploration, manipulation, reducing both verbal stereotypies that mobility, increase interaction with the environment and foster communication, also proposed the stimuli, not being structured cogntiva not require special processing. Applied
in Italy and Europe in various contexts, also used in the Foundation qiesta methodology also makes use of tactile stimuli (such as massage), the proprioceptive containment through natural materials (wheat, millet, puffed rice in tanks) or even of contact with the fur of dogs used in pet therapy.
We have found that this sensory moment is particularly pleasing to children with severe disabilities associated with visual impairment, children with relational problems, or simply to all those children who are tired of feeling make direct requests from adults and must rediscover the pleasure of "watching" to "touch", "smell", "trust" ... In conclusion
having to give its view on the course can say that the update has met my expectations to 60%. The course participants were divided among companies with experience in the field and students / operators have not yet entered into employment then the needs were substantially different. To us with more experience was most interested in the practical part of the course and that we would have gladly skipped the theoretical quite obvious and of little interest.
Then in the final test of satisfaction were found the two positions of the group on the objectives and the inadequate discontent of practical group work.
has proved much more useful part of training at the facility where I could observe for a week the case of a child (2 years) with ID and neurovisivo affected by Angelman syndrome already reported six months after the foundation by January 2007.
addition to this case I was presented by psychologist of the center I watched other kids more serious, from time to time in different treatments.
Very important was the meeting and the comparison with the various therapists in the center, especially with Teresa Vysocka that the human and professional point of view has a very important contribution to my work. She has dedicated a space to share the experiences of the sessions that I observed in her therapy room and give me practical advice on cases that I follow in my work so much to offer its own observation to a serious case of a child that I follow at the my work place.
Our collaboration has been maintained to the end of the course and we agree with the mother of the child in question can be sent to Prof. Frolick a user of this little video for more tips on how to proceed by seeking new targets even with respect to gravity appropriate. The budget
experience is concluded in a positive way beyond the course itself for the opportunity to make these important meetings with other operators and their experiences have increased my personal baggage, and have brought new life and new energy to support a lot of work delicate and difficult.
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