The Popular Party in the Cabildo calls for measures to guarantee full integration in schools. The counselor and spokesperson for the group, Zaida González, will defend an initiative to demand that the Government of the Canary Islands allow therapists access to Tenerife schools and institutes. González claims that the island institution must “lead actions that guarantee a real inclusion of children with special needs in the classroom.”
Zaida González announces that her political formation will claim to launch this initiative in the next Plenary Commission on Education. Specifically, he refers to the need to “reissue or make new agreements – which were paralyzed by the coronavirus pandemic – with public or private entities, institutions, professional associations and associations that allow therapists access to schools” . The intention is that they can perform behavioral therapies in situ with the aim of promoting the real integration of children with special needs.
The majority of minors with special needs go to therapy once school hours have ended, and on this issue, the spokesperson for the PP in the Cabildo explains that “there are many associations that provide services and therapies to minors, according to their needs concrete”. This happens in the case of people with different disorders due to attention deficit and hyperactivity, the autism spectrum, learning and communication.
These therapies are provided both in associations and in external cabinets, “where professionals work on methods so that children with any of these disorders can acquire tools that allow them to carry out their activities, on a day-to-day basis, and in their respective schools”.
Zaida González considers “important” that the figure of the agreement with associations be recovered, as a legal framework so that therapists can access the educational center and carry out therapy or support in the place where the minor is schooled.
