PHOTOS: SERGIO BETANCORT
The Association of Disabled People of Lanzarote (Adislan) now has a new Child Development and Early Intervention Center. The center was inaugurated this Wednesday by the President of the Canary Islands Government, Paulino Rivero, accompanied by the Minister of Social Welfare, Youth and Housing of the Canary Islands Government.
The new center is the only one on the island that offers preventive and/or therapeutic care to children aged 0 to 6 with disabilities or at risk of suffering from them, as well as to their families, "allowing children to develop their potential and have fewer problems in the future", as pointed out by the president of Adislan, Lorea Santos.
This new center, located on Calle Puerto Rico in Arrecife, already serves 82 children, which has made it possible to "eliminate the waiting list of 34 children that existed before", according to Lorea Santos.
The therapies that are developed depend on the pathology of each child, "since a child with Down syndrome is not the same as one with autism", but they have to do "with speech therapy, pedagogy, multisensory stimulation, rehabilitation or psychomotricity".
To this end, the center employs five pedagogues, a psychopedagogue, two speech therapists, a psychologist, a social worker and a teacher.
