Help to100 most disadvantaged orphans (disability)

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We heartedly thank you for supporting our project at GlobalGiving!

With your support we are continuing the developmental sessions on the method of "Portage" with children with severe disabilities in the Elatma`s orphanage. So, in September, there were conducted 294 sessions. Four specialists were daily engaged with 14 children individually, thanks to which children acquired 14 new skills!

So, Kolya S. (the name is changed) mastered 3 skills at once! It was possible to develop fine motor skills of the hands, communication skills, cognitive abilities. Also our specialists were practicing with him the actions that would allow the child to be more independent in life. Kolya has consistently achieved success in almost everything. It is pleasing that he began to sit in a pear-chair, directly holding his head for 5 minutes! No wonder the boy was taught to pull himself by the fingers of an adult and sit from the first month of sessions!

Also, Kolya was diligently learning to drop his hands in a basin of water, and then, to wet them, pouring some water on his face. This is a necessary stage for "special" children in mastering the ability to wash, wipe their face and hands. Kolya has worked out this useful skill to automatism.

And the nine-year-old Pauline L. (name changed) has acquired the ability to draw with a pencil and a felt-tip pen. She is also developing the skill to zip up the clothes. Also Polina knows where her playing place in the game room, but recently the girl for the first time has put a stool for the tutor opposite to herself! By her actions and success, Polina seems to be challenging, because the child has a Down syndrome and a deep development delay, in addition to other concomitant diagnoses. But classes on Portage help her to develop!

So, month after month, the life of children with severe and multiple disabilities is steadily changing for the better! Thanks to everyone who is involved in this! Without your participation children would be deprived of the opportunity to develop the most important everyday skills, of constant attention of an adult close to them, of walks and joy of communication!

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Dear friend!

With your support, we continue the practice of dog-therapy at the Orphanage for children with disability.  Children, despite severe developmental disorders, there are improvements in the motor, emotional spheres, in socialization, intellectual development.

At the last lesson Gleb again rushed first to the dogs. At first I took a long lead on a leash, each time it turns out all the better. I also learned how to give commands - and this is Gleb's work! And he still managed to lie on the rug, for a long time, thoughtfully, he worked everything himself.

Olga again crawled away from us - she is blind, so her tactile sensations are sharpened. Dogs are too strong stimuli for its receptors. But, after lying down for a bit, Olga began to smile - it means she is already pleased, and further success will be.

Another Gleb, younger, also blind, participated only 2 times in the sessions. Last time he was frightened, he was constrained and could not go beyond the usual poses. But this time everything was different - he was already completely calm and relaxed, immediately began to work out the very centering of the body, to babble, to iron the dogs. The therapist helped to relax his legs and arms - Gleb smiled, the ice broke!

We worked with Sasha for a long time ago - but she immediately remembered the dogs, reached for them, agreed to the rug, independently worked everything, smiled. What was our surprise to learn that the girl is very capricious and capricious in contacts - she can not even be transferred to another group, where she is unfamiliar with teachers. But with dogs and us she communicated completely without complexes! Dog-therapy miraculously helps in the socialization of children.

And Timur, adoring dogs, as always had everything - played with different toys and a cane, lay down. Although the guy has the strongest spasm of all limbs – but he can more and more with the help of dogs.

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We cordially thank you for your support of our children - without you, their development would not be possible!

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