I'DAD CENTER
Resources for a Child Who Has Different Abilities

From 6 to adult

When school age is reached, the imaginative content of fairy tales, fables, legends and later on, history stimulates the child’s imagination. The hidden truths they contain help in the forming of his/her mind. The children learn writing, reading and arithmetic by participating in the actions undertaken such as, running or drawing forms which, although somewhat clumsy at first, gradually become simple, more complex and refined; or by walking, clapping and speaking rhythmically. In this way, a special therapeutic effect invariably occurs.

Art Classes

In children with disabilities, the urge to express themselves in images must be awakened so that they may comprehend themselves and their environment and learn to develop their fantasy and their will.

In painting colors exteriorize the child’s inner understandings. He/she learns to experience the warmth and vivacity of red which is like fire while blue is cool, reticent and closer to withdrawal. Yellow, on the other hand, radiates and is joyful.

In nature, the examples are abundant, and the children thus associate sun with yellow and blue with the color of the sky; red is the cloak of the king: royal red.

At different ages the children paint and draw differently and in new ways. From making scribbles and blotches, pictures emerge and often wonderful paintings, full of imagination, are the result.