The Day Care Center “Ladislau Tacsi”

It was opened in March 2007 for adults with severe and profound intellectual disabilities, associated with other motor disabilities or behavioral disturbances. The Center provides services for 43 beneficiaries, who are divided in 4 groups:

The activities in the center are ment to increase as much as possible the beneficiaries’s personal autonomy, to help them gain social integration and to offer them the opportunity to spend quality time together with other youngsters. Trying to achieve this goal, we  set up a weekly programme, consisting of:

Increasing personal and social autonomy (household activities, social skills, personal hygene, health education, sexual education, city tours – a good accasion to practice behavioural rules)

Exercising verbal and nonverbal comunication skills, learning to receive and send appropriate messages, learning to associate words with objects, learning the meaning of pictures, photos, road signs)

Artistic activities (dancing, painting, theater, modelling,music, crafts) which offer vizual, tactile, auditive exploration of reality and expressing yourself using shapes, textures, voice, sounds, musical instruments.

Education, learning the environment, sorting objects, spatial and temporal orientation, analyzing objects, problems solving.

Increasing motricity

Sports, plays, contests

Stimulation and relaxation, very usefull for those with severe retard. Each day there are activities for stimulating one of the five senses.

Activities in the garden, household activities, working activities e.g. sorting,assambling  clips for cables, all these activity make them feel very useful as adults and reduce symptoms of anxiety, frustration, agresion, panic, depresion. This way  their energy is directed towards a usefull activity which make them proud, self confident and increase personal value.

Leisure activities: trips, parties and celebration of important events

Kinetotherapy

Councelling, support groups

> The activities are established according to the beneficiaries options, needs and other aspects such as age, gender and others.

> The building has 4 rooms, terrace and garden, nursery, psychological cabinet,a room for snooezel, and toilets.

> The team: 10 specialized teachers, 1 coordinator, 1 psychologist, 1 kinetotherapyst, 1 psychiatrist, 1 manager