| Theme | Hypotherapy and hydrotherapy as an ETS method for motor and social development. |
| Objectives | Applying social-health therapeutic approaches to hypotherapy and hydrotherapy in working with children and young people with disabilities. |
| Target Group | Children and young people with different types of disabilities and their families. |
| Description | The project envisages the application of proven therapies (hypotherapy and hydrotherapy) and methods used for disorders of the musculoskeletal system and intellectual disabilities, which will have a beneficial effect on the general health, motor and social development of the participants involved in groups. The implementation of the set therapeutic approaches “hypotherapy” and “hydrotherapy” have a complex impact, which is applicable to the target group (children and young people with disabilities) with which the organization works and meets its needs. |
| Impact of the programme | Assists the processes to achieve the main goals in the focus of the organization’s activity – the use of complex methods for achieving effective results in providing physical and mental comfort for children and young people with disabilities, actively stimulating their overall development and social integration. Last but not least, with the implementation of this complex initiative, BALIZ Association – Pleven will strengthen its active position by providing these necessary therapies for children and young people with disabilities and will increase its functional capacity in the direct work and promotion of good practice. |
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| Organization/specialist implementing the practice | BALIZ Association |
| Activity managers | Staff of BALIZ Association, Specially trained physiotherapists |
| Location | Pleven City, Bulgaria |
