Arts Therapy for the Disabled
For children and adults with special needs
Background
What we
do
About the Therapy
Our training
programmes
Training
Manual
National Conference
What do we do?
We have been introducing Arts Therapy for the Disabled into
institutions in Romania for the past 12 years.
This approach involves play, music, drama and other
arts-type sessions to bring much needed stimulation and happiness.
We provide a visiting therapy team for over 400 institutionalised
children and 160 adults.
Visiting teams tour institutions for children and
adults in and around Bacau county in North East Romania. They take
with them gymnastic equipment, musical instruments, play and arts
materials.
In some cases, we have donated all the necessary equipment
to institutions. We will continue to donate equipment in institutions
where the staff have been trained and show a commitment to the programme.
We conduct the training programmes and follow these
up with support and advisory services.
We also provide therapy for 160 adults with severe
disability in long-stay hospitals where we see some of the very
worst conditions.
Our teams have received intensive training
in special needs therapies over 12 years from specialist UK practitioners.
Their work is recognized and accredited by the Romanian Departments
of the Handicapped and Child Protection.
What sort of arts therapy
is it?
Sometimes referred to as "Arts Therapy for the Disabled",
music, art, movement, and play therapy is a programme of structured
activity involving therapeutic sessions of music and song,
movement, games, gymnastic circuits, arts and crafts, imaginative
play, stories drama and puppetry.
The therapy can be given on a one-to-one basis or
in groups.
The programme is adapted according to the ages and
numbers of beneficiaries, their levels of ability and the skills
and experience of the therapists.
Check out our new mini film about
how our Impart
programme brings life giving art therapy to institutions for the
disabled in Romania
Read On
Our training
programmes
Training
Manual
National Conference
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