Training held in Armenia
22.10.2014.
From 13 to 17 October 2014, employees of the Day Center for Rehabilitation Mali dom-Zagreb Martina Celizić, Diana Korunić and Senada Jagar held a training in Gyumri, Armenia.
Participants were introduced to topics such as Sensory approach to the curriculum, Early communication, and the program was concluded with a workshop on creating an Individual Educational Plan.
Education was held in Gyumri "Children's Home" and was attended by 25 members of staff as well as staff from similar institutions in Yerevan, Kharberd Orphanage and Marie Izmirlyan.
This training was held as part of a four-year cooperation between Mali dom-Zagreb, Perkins International and Gyumri "Children's Home". Built in 1924, Gyumri "Children's Home" is an institution for children 0 -7 years old with intellectual and physical disabilities, without parental care.
In the period from 2011 to 2014, Mali dom-Zagreb conducted series of seminars and workshops, and this one being the last in the series included a Certificate presentation ceremony, attended by the director of Mali dom Darija Udovičić Mahmuljin, Dennis Lolli – Perkins International's regional coordinator for Europe and Eurasia, and the director of Gyumri "Children's Home" Ruzanna Avagyan.
Multi-annual visits of experts from Mali dom gave participants theoretical and practical knowledge needed to create programs to work with children with visual impairment and additional developmental disabilities or deaf-blind, with specific title: "Holistic approach to curriculum development for MDVI and DB children".
Ceremony also served to express thanks to all the participants, satisfaction with the cooperation so far and a desire to maintain future collaboration.
