The Cultural Center of Adeje hosts until tomorrow, July 19, within the Summer University 2023, a course dedicated to educational professionals and education so that they can carry out an intervention plan aimed at children with specific educational support needs, “focusing on the role of the family”.
María del Carmen Rodríguez Jiménez, professor in the Department of Didactics and Educational Research at the University of La Laguna and director of this course, points out that it is essential that a joint work between professionals that serve this group and their family environment. “Families have to be participants in the work sessions that are carried out with their children, so that they learn directly what is being done and thus can continue with this work at home,” he adds.
There is wide range of educational needs ranging from hearing impairment, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder or reading-writing problems, among others, and each of them has a very different treatment, according to the expert. “Fathers and mothers have to coordinate with the team of psychologists, speech therapists and teachers or even with the doctors who care for their parents to achieve more effective results.”
Rodríguez Jiménez affirms that, as a result of this joint work, the family will be able to extrapolate this work to their daily life and “The results will be faster.” “A child with a hearing disability will learn much sooner if, in addition to the hour of therapy with their speech therapist, their parents at home reinforce what they have learned in that session, if they have also been there and know how to practice.”
An “open and flexible” methodology will be used in this course, based on an action-focused approach. “The idea, in general, is to carry out an accompaniment model adjusted to each family,” says Rodríguez.
Extraction room in the Cultural Center
The Canary Islands Institute for Hemodonation and Hemotherapy (ICHH), attached to the Canary Islands Government Department of Health, has installed a temporary extraction room at the Adeje Summer University, which is held in the municipality’s Cultural Center. The extraction room is located in room 88, where blood can be donated between 10:30 and 12:45. In Adeje, the Canary Islands Transfusion Network obtained a total of 729 donations in 2022. The ICHH reminds that to participate in this initiative, you can go directly to the extraction room or you can request an appointment by calling 012 or the telephone numbers 922 470 012 and 928 301 012 (option 8), from Monday to Friday. , from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., or by completing the form published on the home page of the website, efectodonacion.com. “Before going to donate, it is advisable to review the information on security measures and the self-assessment test.” | DE
