Today, the next cycle of classes of the Canis-Therapy Project for our wards from the Formula Growth Center for Social Support and Rehabilitation has ended. More than 75 children of the Formula Growth Center for Social Development in Moscow took part in the project and coped with phobias, difficulties in cognitive activity, motor activity and emotional state, communication problems and other challenges that are the result of severe and multiple developmental disorders.
In total, from September 2021 to May 2022, 57 trips of canis therapists to the institution were carried out, this is more than 150 hours of individual and group work with children. And without charitable help, this would not have been possible. Thank you!
For more than 18 years, the Diema’s Dream Foundation has been attracting specialists from the Solar Dog project to rehabilitate their wards. For the first time, Mary Dudley invited therapists to Orphanage No. 8 for mentally retarded children in Moscow back in 2004. Then the classes were held at the Center for Social Habilitation “Dima Mechta”, and in recent years, about a hundred children regularly receive assistance and rehabilitation, the results of which are impressive.
This project is valuable for us as an opportunity to invite unique specialists to rehabilitation and solve rehabilitation problems in innovative ways.
The cycle of classes begins in September-October of each year and ends in May. Then the holidays begin, the children who have been in the project leave for the summer with new skills and a new attitude to the world. And we are preparing to launch a new cycle of classes for new wards.
And now, we are ready to share these results. Canis therapists described their many years of experience in a 29-page article. We read a lot… And now we are going to share pieces of the article every Wednesday. For example, what is canis therapy really? What kind of dogs are suitable for her and what should be feared in the work of a dog-child? How are the classes of therapists with children organized, and what are the requirements for the qualifications of therapists in general? And most importantly – what are the results of such work?
So, every Wednesday we will share something interesting.
Brief information about our project here https://ddfrussia.ru/campaign/kanis-terapiya/