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The Right to Live Association for Intellectually Disabled
At RTLA, we have services and facilities for persons with intellectual disabilities for most age groups. We work with the very young in our early intervention program, as well as with adults in our vocational workshops and residential services. However, we currently don’t have facilities for preschool children who need to be prepared for the school experience, be it in regular schools that have an integration program, or in other centers and NGOs which only accept children with special needs starting from the age of 6 or 7. For this reason, we would like to start a small pre-school for persons with special needs, in order to provide them with the care and training they would need to later attend other schools or centers. With our know- how in the field, this facility would help their smooth transition into other schools by providing them with different training and educational programs that would improve their performance and help them to smoothly make the transition from the home experience to a regular school experience.
We have appointed the Manager of the project, who is an experienced special education teacher from the Association and has over 15 years experience in the field, and partially furnished one classroom