The Workshop started on 1 March 2000. A qualified staff was employed for leading the activities with 25 disabled people. Now in our Center we are working with 40 disabled adults.
Rehabilitation is carried out on the basis of individual rehabilitation programs worked out by the program council. The programs are assessed and modified each 6 months.
Besides typical improving and professional rehabilitation activities, we organise sport and cultural events, site-seeing trips, theatre performances.
The Workshop ensures the activities in eight workshops:
The workshop main tasks are:
- Teaching of preparation simple meals for a group and eating them together.
- Having learned the simplest activities connected with fulfil the basic needs, such as satisfying hunger, skill of sanitary-hygienic self-service, the difficulty threshold of activities to learn will be increased.
- Having recognized the individual intellectual-manual abilities of individual participants at the existing level, a therapy instructor will introduce more developed tasks, motivating to self-reliance in actions, by preparing more complicated meals, repairing simple damages of one’s own clothing, developing and remembering one’s own sanitary-hygienic habits, tidying up.
- In individual cases a therapy instructor will aim at teach how to use the means of transport.
In the technical workshop the participants are getting acquainted with basic tools of the workshop equipment and their safe use. The activities aim at the development of manual skilfulness, recognition abilities, responsibility for a working station.
Co-operation in a group will be developed, as well as work proper organization, directed activities in order to complete a task.
Within the scope of technical activities, getting acquainted the participants not only with wood materials technology but also with tools and equipment for woodworking is planned.
The activities are run in stages, taking into consideration the difficulties of the foreseen tasks.
Physical rehabilitation fundamentally affects the body fitness.
By physical exercises the efficiency of organism functions is increased, as it is for personal resourcefulness, ability to fight the difficulties, belief in one-self.
The workshop activities cover among others; general development and improvement exercises at ladders and on mattresses, elements of corrective physical exercises, weight training for separate parts of muscles (with the use of atlas), training in some sport disciplines: among others table tennis, football, elements of light athletics.
In the workshop program, special attention is paid to rational dosing of the effort of rehabilitated people.
The art workshop target is to develop recognition functions, increase the manual skills, sight-physical coordination. Shaping the skills to assess differences and similarities of colours, shapes and size.
By providing the therapy participant a chosen information within the scope of art, the instructor aspire to develop the skill of expressing, by different artistic means, forms, feelings and experience.
It is accompanied by recognition of elementary principles of the every-day life aesthetics, as well as accustom the participants for realizing the need of systematic contacts with art.
The Workshop participants might have problems within the intellectual area, disturbed by maturing rate and difficulties with communicating.
Within the activities in a supplementary workshop, they might be under professional care of a psychologist and a speech therapist.
The psychologist’s main target is to appropriately diagnose the directions of personality development of the participants within the social, recognition and emotional-feeling areas, at different stages of realization the individual rehabilitation plans.
In this workshop one becomes acquainted with different techniques which are adapted for the individual capabilities and skills of the participants.
People taking part in those classes develop their manual skills, e.g. embroidery and sewing, needle-craft, knitting, usage and maintenance of sewing machines.
Moreover, during the classes the participants learn not only how to care for the materials and surrounding, but also to respect the safety basic rules.
They also participate in exhibitions and markets where their works often are bought. In addition, they help to prepare the Christmas and Easter decorations and decoration in general.
Work in the handicraft workshop stimulates concentration and develops technical and practical abilities what can be observed during the further work of the occupational therapy workshops.