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DAY PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS AN HOA SOCIAL CARING CENTER HUE CITY, VIETNAM

DAY PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS AN HOA SOCIAL CARING CENTER HUE CITY, VIETNAM Alliance for Children Foundation (AFC) PROGRAM OVERVIEW Support vulnerable children and their families in Hue City, Vietnam

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DAY PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS AN HOA SOCIAL CARING CENTER HUE CITY, VIETNAM

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  1. DAY PROGRAM FORCHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDSAN HOA SOCIAL CARING CENTERHUE CITY, VIETNAM Alliance for Children Foundation (AFC)

  2. PROGRAM OVERVIEW • Support vulnerable children and their families in Hue City, Vietnam • Provide a day program for 20 children who have special needs and developmental disabilities, such as Down’s syndrome, autism, and mental retardation • Program includes: • Education and life skills training in a classroom setting; • Nutritious meals and snacks; • Play and enrichment activities.

  3. CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS IN HUE • Inadequate life and self-help skills • Poor communication and educational skills • Timid and isolated • Extreme poverty, including inadequate nutrition, and limited or no access to education and health care

  4. Program is located at the An Hoa Social Caring Center in Hue City, Thua Thien Hue Province, Vietnam, funded by AFC.

  5. Staff conducted interviews with families to enroll the children.

  6. 20 CHILDREN ENROLLED IN THE PROGRAM • Classification according to special need: - Down syndrome: 08 children (40%) - “Weak intellectual faculties” and autism: 09 children (45%) - Brain injured: 02 children (10%) - Deaf and mute: 01 child (05%) • Ages: - From 6 ~ 8 year-old: 04 children (20%) - From 9 ~ 12 year-old: 12 children (60%) - From 13 ~ 16 year-old: 04 children (20%) • Gender: - Female: 09 children (45%) - Male: 11 children (55%)

  7. The program began in May 2007 and runs Monday to Friday, 7:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

  8. Three teachers staff the program. Each day begins with morning exercises.

  9. The children are taught how to identify and sort colors.

  10. They learn the alphabet.

  11. They learn how to put puzzles together and work cooperatively.

  12. Children learn how to count and organize.

  13. Teachers provide individual and group instruction.

  14. Each day, there is a writing hour.

  15. Children learn to hold a pen and draw.

  16. These are 4 older students.

  17. These 4 children enjoy putting puzzles together.

  18. Children learn to get dressed independently and fold clothes.

  19. They learn how to wear shoes and sandals.

  20. Children learn how to work in a garden.

  21. Each day, two nutritious meals are served, and snacks.

  22. Every month the program sponsors a picnic. “Recreation park” is a favorite place.

  23. The children and the staff have fun at the Ball House.

  24. The children are taught to play in groups and fairly compete.

  25. The children are taught appropriate behaviors in public places.

  26. The children are glad to show visitors what they can do.

  27. The Power Inverter helps to keep lights and fans going when electricity is cut off in the hot summer and severe storm season.

  28. In monthly meetings between teachers and parents, information about children are exchanged and discussed.

  29. PROGRAM OUTCOMES FOR THE CHILDREN • Improved life skills and education • Dressing self, wearing shoes, toilet regularity, cleaning face and brushing teeth. • Learn letters, colors, and shapes. • Understand time (season, day, time in day) and weather conditions. • Some children can do simple calculating (addition/subtraction). • Some children can tell a short story, folk poem and sing a song. • Some children can cut and paste papers, paint and draw. • Improved socialization • Participate in the morning exercise and play together. • Joyfully join in team games, understand and follow the game’s rule. • Children help others in cleaning up and are cooperative with one another.

  30. Teachers and the children

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