DAY PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS AN HOA SOCIAL CARING CENTER HUE CITY, VIETNAM

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DAY PROGRAM FORCHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDSAN
HOA SOCIAL CARING CENTERHUE CITY, VIETNAM

• Alliance for Children Foundation (AFC)

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PROGRAM OVERVIEW

• Support vulnerable children and their families in
  Hue City, Vietnam
• Provide a day program for 20 children who have
  special needs and developmental disabilities,
  such as Downs syndrome, autism, and mental
  retardation
• Program includes
• Education and life skills training in a classroom
  setting
• Nutritious meals and snacks
• Play and enrichment activities.

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CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS IN HUE

• Inadequate life and self-help skills
• Poor communication and educational skills
• Timid and isolated
• Extreme poverty, including inadequate nutrition,
  and limited or no access to education and health
  care

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Program is located at the An Hoa Social Caring
Center in Hue City, Thua Thien Hue Province,
Vietnam, funded by AFC.
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Staff conducted interviews with families to
enroll the children.
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20 CHILDREN ENROLLED IN THE PROGRAM

• Classification according to special need
• - Down syndrome 08 children (40)
• - Weak intellectual faculties and autism
• 09 children (45)
• - Brain injured 02 children (10)
• - Deaf and mute 01 child (05)
• Ages
• - From 6 8 year-old 04 children (20)
• - From 9 12 year-old 12 children (60)
• - From 13 16 year-old 04 children (20)
• Gender
• - Female 09 children (45)
• - Male 11 children (55)

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The program began in May 2007 and runs Monday
to Friday, 730 a.m. - 430 p.m.
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• Three teachers staff the program.
• Each day begins with morning exercises.

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The children are taught how to identify and sort
colors.
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They learn the alphabet.
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They learn how to put puzzles together and work
cooperatively.
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Children learn how to count and organize.
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Teachers provide individual and group instruction.
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Each day, there is a writing hour.
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Children learn to hold a pen and draw.
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These are 4 older students.
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• These 4 children enjoy putting puzzles together.

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Children learn to get dressed independently and
fold clothes.
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They learn how to wear shoes and sandals.
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• Children learn how to work in a garden.

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• Each day, two nutritious meals are served, and
  snacks.

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• Every month the program sponsors a picnic.
• Recreation park is a favorite place.

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• The children and the staff have fun at the Ball
  House.

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• The children are taught to play in groups and
  fairly compete.

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• The children are taught appropriate behaviors in
  public places.

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• The children are glad to show visitors what they
  can do.

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• The Power Inverter helps to keep lights and fans
  going when electricity is cut off in the hot
  summer and severe storm season.

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• In monthly meetings between teachers and parents,
  information about children are exchanged and
  discussed.

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PROGRAM OUTCOMES FOR THE CHILDREN

• Improved life skills and education
• Dressing self, wearing shoes, toilet regularity,
  cleaning face and brushing teeth.
• Learn letters, colors, and shapes.
• Understand time (season, day, time in day) and
  weather conditions.
• Some children can do simple calculating
  (addition/subtraction).
• Some children can tell a short story, folk poem
  and sing a song.
• Some children can cut and paste papers, paint and
  draw.
• Improved socialization
• Participate in the morning exercise and play
  together.
• Joyfully join in team games, understand and
  follow the games rule.
• Children help others in cleaning up and are
  cooperative with one another.

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Teachers and the children