OAPEE (NATIONAL AGENCY OF SPAIN)

GRUNDTVIG PARTNER SEARCH

  • Grundtvig action

Learning partnership
Multilateral project/network / 
  • Seeking for

Coordinator

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Partners

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  • Preliminary project title

Animal assisted activities (AAA)
  • Summary of the project

Main covered fields / Disabilities/special needs, Social integration, Pedagogical methods, health education, adapted sports
Target groups / 1.- The intention is to provide our students we occupational alternatives for their free time as well as show them other possibilities of interest as a counterpart to the reality they already konw as a result of their family’s social problems.
2.- As a means to occupying their time in a more advantageous manner we intend on using AAA to fulfil this objective. We believe that these activities constitute a model to better well-being and social relationship seeing as understanding animals and their needs can influence oue own behaviour.
3.- Despite their mental and physical limitations, AAA can constitute a means of developing, their capabilities and competence as students, until now unexplored to its entirety, through creative arts.
Objectives / 1.- Contribute to the assesment of the importants of these therapies in enabling the desire to learn and to socially involve handicapped (menthally or phisically) or others with relating difficulties.
2.- Outline and define training curricula for the various participants and professionals.
3.- Create practical guides in AAA (hipotherapy, adapted riding and assisted therapy with dogs).
4.- Develop assessment and intervention instruments to be uses in an AAA educational setting.
Activities / Assisted therapy with dogs, hipotherapy and adapted riding
Outcomes / 1.- Structure new work methods to enrich the work with discapabilities to improve their quality of life.
2.- Promote an exchange of knowledge, experiences and methodologies on the theme of AAA, by creating a partnersship between various european centers.
  • Potential partners

Special needs centers
  • Working language

English / 
German
Other (namely)
  • Institution

Name / Asociación Provincial de Parálisis Cerebral
Type of institution / Cerebral palsy association (ocupational activities center/residential facility)
City / Tarragona
Webpage /
The mission and main activities of the institution / To represent, to educate, to protect and to recover the affected persons of cerebral palsy or similar patologies.
The connection between the activities and adult education / To foment the communication, orientation, social and affective relation
  • Contact person

Name
/ Cristina Salazar
Position / Ocupational monitor
Telephone / 0034 977217604
Fax / 0034 977248396
E-mail /