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During active treatment, therapist guides, teaches, controls, restrains and focus. Best results are accomplished within children's spontaneous activities.
After establishing good contact between child and therapist it is necessary to add additional elements such as pose correction, coordination and specific motoric
skills. Because play does not demand for huge intellectual efforts, it showed itself as an excellent way for rehabilitation of mentally challenged children. Play
can empty aggression, enables socialization, motivates in physical activities and collective work. By reeducation and some elements of sports games, it is possible
not only to influence physical and motoric skills but also to improve them.
The world known researchers indicate that all mentally challenged persons, regardless of their level of deficiency, respond to approval and love that is genuine.
They need to know there are people who love them and to understand they are part of the society. They also need understanding as they experience the normal stages
of anxiety, guilt, resentment, and sorrow in learning to deal with their disability. The Home follows this and because of that its policy is teamwork. The professional
team is put together as follows: social workers, psychologist, defectologists (special teachers), neuropsychiatrist, legal adviser, and if needed logoped and physiotherapist.
Team supervises children and youth during their residence in the Home. In addition, the Home has a sports facility, a playground for children as well as a special facility for
physiotherapy. One more additional aspect of the work and recreation for protégées, is a camp facility on the Montenegrin Coast, where the children and residents have the
opportunity to get away from the daily routines and have a summer holiday. For the winter season Home uses a camp on the Kosmaj mountain near Belgrade.
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