We successfully made it to San Lucas Toliman Sunday afternoon with the rest of the team:)
Monday and Tuesday morning we met with the teachers at the school for children with special needs. The 2 teachers that are there don't have any training for working with kids with special needs, and were really excited to have us there. We were greeted by lots of hugs from the kids too:)
We have a couple teachers, two Occupational Therapists, a speech therapist, and a physical therapist all on the team, so we started with some one on one evaluations with the kids. We were able to give the teachers a lot of suggestions for working with the kids and exercises to help them. It was cool to see how receptive and eager to
Some of us also went in to observe the classroom and see what the kids were working on and come up with ways to enhance their learning.
Tuesday we got to play soccer with the kids and do some hands on activities with the kids in the classroom. Emily led an activity where the kids got to use letter beads to work on recognizing and spelling their names. Definitely one of the highlights was seeing how engaged and excited the kids were about learning things in a new way.
Another highlight for today was getting to ride in the back off a pickup Guatemala style (aka: seeing how many people you can fit standing in the back!) due to a rainstorm flooding the streets today!
Tonight we are working on some projects (play dough, weighted sensory blankets, photo exercises) for the kids and we are excited to try them out tomorrow with the kids:)
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