The reactivation of CEIAP, its changes and activities
Reinvention within the pandemic has been one of the main efforts to keep various sectors of society current and operational, however, within education the challenge has been greater.
The Center for Comprehensive Stimulation and Psychotherapeutic Support of the University of Azuay (CEIAP) has remained active during the health crisis thanks to various mechanisms implemented by its directors.
The CEIAP, within its schedule, has two programs, one in the morning that offers the initial education service for children from two to five years old, and one in the evening where axes related to the psychotherapeutic follow-up of newborns to children of 14 years are addressed.
Of its programs, the one that had the most complications was preschool, which became totally virtual, this as a consequence generated a reduction in the number of students from 150 to 60.
To create an adequate educational space, all teachers received training in virtual pedagogical techniques and tools. In addition to the respective advice for the use of a new virtual platform where students' work is monitored.
These classes, which are held three times a week, require the joint participation of the children's representatives.
Dr. Ana Lucía Pacurucu, director of CEIAP, tells us about working together with parents: “Children have a great capacity to adapt, despite this, they always need to be accompanied by an adult to turn on the camera. and the microphone ”.
Another of the difficulties that children have faced with this new teaching method is the lack of sociability, because a large part of them, thanks to confinement, are afraid to go out.
For this reason, various activities have been created so that students can interact in a relaxation space, such as dance therapy and virtual yoga.
On the other hand, the psychotherapeutic program, which has the specialties of physiotherapy, early stimulation, speech therapy, pedagogical support and psychology, resorted to a blended mechanism. Children with autism spectrum and cerebral palsy are those who frequent this program.
“They require a greater follow-up. This program fits into the health services, so since last September, with a reduced capacity, we began to work in a blended way with the children who present these pictures, ”says Pacurucu.
For four days a week, it receives around 10 children in individual sessions. Attendees have had advice on biosafety measures and disinfection of spaces.
"A large part of the children from the psychotherapeutic program come in person, however, if the parents, due to the health crisis, do not want to bring their child, the meetings are held virtually" concludes Ana Lucía Pacurucu.
Finally, the children in the stimulation program do not have virtual exposure, but through two groups of four children who meet twice a week, adding a weekly follow-up by the teachers who, through calls to the parents, monitor the students. .
There are expectations of resuming the presence for the next academic period in September of this year, however, for this the pronouncement of the Ministry of Education is expected.
UDA Correspondent
