Azerbaijan, Baku, April 5 / Trend, S. Agayeva /
A Rehabilitation Center for Children with special needs has been opened today within a cooperation project of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation with the Russian Uralsib Financial Corporation, the Foundation said.
The Center has been built based on a memorandum signed by the Foundation's President Mehriban Aliyeva and leadership of the Uralsib Financial Corporation.
The Rehabilitation Center, designed in a modern style and commissioned in the Yeni Guneshli residential area in Baku, consists of three-storey building and ancillary building.
The Center has favorable conditions to implement programs that help restore health, intellectual and physical development. Physical and intellectual capabilities of children with disabilities will be assessed here, and the conditions have been created to deal with therapeutic exercises and sports, massage, paraffin, therapeutic baths and pool will contribute to the recovery and development at the professional level.
Ongoing recovery programs, along with elimination of such problems of the children with special needs and adolescents as limitation of vital habits, ability to communicate, inability to get primary education, will help them to enhance mental outlook, develop their speech and strengthen motion.
An art therapy room will also operate under the Center equipped with modern equipment. It will create atmosphere that helps to develop the physical capabilities, training of independent living skills, facilitate integration into the social environment of disabled persons with occupational diseases.
Speech therapist's services and the conditions created to eliminate family problems will help them to reduce psychological tension.
The building has two large elevators, heating and air-conditioning systems. An open sports ground with area of 523 square meters has been built in the ancillary building, designed for utilities.
Along with the constant attention and care for children with special needs, a project ensuring access to information technology for blind children and children with weak sight has been implemented in the Republic Boarding School in Baku with the support of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation. Also a music school for blind children, children's psychoneurological center in the Narimanov district, regional information centers for peoples with disabilities in Ganja and Nakhchivan have been built and commissioned.