Improving the lives of children with special needs

Here we will show you the most important programs and activities that took place during the past two months in the physical therapy and autism program, where the program included seventeen children of different mental and motor disabilities, where the main goal was to reach a small amount of awareness, knowing about these very difficult cases in Obtaining a tangible improvement in her, and therefore the same activities take a certain period to reach the awareness required by each child.

Physiotherapy contributes to developing health and preventing disease by understanding the movement of the human body to help it mitigate the effects of disease and various injuries.
It is concerned with using a comprehensive method for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of problems, movement disorders and pathological conditions using various therapeutic exercises and physical means.
Benefits of physical therapy for paraplegics, motor disabilities and some cerebral palsy
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Improves balance and neuromuscular coordination.
Training the child to use his strong capabilities and abilities to compensate for his weak abilities.
Training the child to control muscle spasms, hypotonia, and involuntary movements.
Alert and increase the child's anti-gravity skills.
Increase the anti-gravity force of the child
Improving perceptual abilities.
It improves speech by strengthening the muscles for breathing and also by increasing movement, thus increasing awareness, and also strengthening the muscles for speech such as the lips, tongue and roof of the throat.
Improving academic skills.
-Improve social skills.

One of the most important exercises in physical therapy is the bridge exercise:
It is one of the strength exercises for the hip joint, helps to
Increased stability of the hip joint by strengthening the hip muscles.
Getting rid of the pain associated with the hip joint.
Increased range of motion of the hip joint.
Reducing the risk of future injuries to the joint.
Increase the flexibility of the hip muscles.

Autism Program:

1- Balance game:
A simple game that is easy to organize, arrange and practice, as it is characterized by ease in its practice and accompanied by joy, pleasure, fun and joy, and at the same time it does not contain complex motor skills.
The aim of this game:
It provides the child with motor skills.
It balances movement and accuracy.
It works to entertain and entertain oneself, and spend free time with something useful and healthy.
It teaches children fast movement.
Release the child's tensions and frustrations.
It works to strengthen the arms and body and give them flexibility and vitality.
Helps develop the concepts of courage, ability, competition, participation, and attention

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One of the most important exercises that the specialist performs for children are sensory exercises and games that help the child achieve the following goals:
Cognitive development: by understanding how things work, and by comparing the properties of different materials with each other.
Social skills: Children can watch how others play, copy and share ideas in a healthy way.
Self-awareness: Children learn to distinguish between things they like and those they don't, which increases their understanding of themselves.
Physical development: Sensory activities can be a good training of the fine muscles in their hands and fingers and this is known as (fine motor control).
Emotional development: Play can be a good way to unleash energy and relieve stress, which means that children can also express their own positive emotions easily.
Communication skills: Whatever their level of language development, children can express their reactions to different materials, for example, a child can show excitement when splashing water, or wonder when they encounter something new.

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Recognize colors through several activities.
Cognitive exercises for children The exercises are characterized by:
. It contains a set of activities through which the desired goal of the unit can be achieved by recognizing colors through colored balls.
. Cognitive exercises through which the child's perceptions are expanded to learn about new things by recognizing the combinations of colors and the name of each color.

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Links:

• Physiotherapy session
• Autism session with Jameel