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Smart Parade - Lisbon 2008 #1 (122)
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Hi dear friends,
Last weekend i visited as usual the downtown and I had the opportunity to enjoy the Smart Parade.
In the WORKSHOP you can see one picture with more cars and another with children painting a car.
Enjoy it !
They walk to cheer the streets of the country but the objective goes more far than this. They are 60 Smart automobiles decorated by artists invited, who can see themselves until day 17 of June in the Terreiro do Paço, in Lisbon. In this date, they will parade by the capital. Later they follow for a national tour and, in October, part of the cars is auctionzed and another part integrates the fleet to rent-a-car of the Smart Advertising. The money collected revert to Innovative Center for Children with Developmental Disabilities - CADIN
CADIN - An Innovative Center for Children with Developmental Disabilities
Children with developmental disorders and their families need comprehensive assessment and intervention.
A non-for profit institution, privately funded, with the goal of providing the best clinical care, teaching and research in the field of developmental disabilities was created in Cascais, Portugal in 2003.
Private funds constitute the “social fund”, and were raised to allow access of low-income families to the Centre.
Aim: to create a Centre of excellence, where the needs of children, adolescent and adults with developmental disabilities are met.
CADIn (Centre for Support of Child Development)
has a staff of more than 40 special education teachers, psychologists, speech, physical and occupational therapists as well as child and adult psychiatrists, paediatricians and child neurologists.
Specialized groups in attention deficit disorder, autism spectrum disorders, specific learning disabilities, family therapy and support, and job training and integration were created.
Multiple conferences are held annually, both at the Centre premises and schools, and research projects were developed.
Affiliation with major universities was pursued.
More than 5000 families have been under our care, with about 1500 new patients each year.
1/3 of the patients receive financial support from the social fund.
In three years CADIn has gained a national reputation, and its members are frequently invited to train/inform the general public, as well as other professionals in the field, on the issues of their expertise.
Born as a Project in 2003, CADIn today proves that it is possible to gather a number of private corporations and financial institutions to create and support the foundation and running costs of a highly sophisticated child development centre, that does not discriminate children from low social or economic background.
Smart Parade
Andam a alegrar as ruas do país mas o objectivo vai mais longe que isso. São 60 automóveis Smart decorados por artistas convidados, que podem ver-se até dia 17 no Terreiro do Paço, em Lisboa, data em que desfilarão pela capital. Depois seguem para uma digressão nacional e, em Outubro, parte dos carros é leiloada e outra parte integra a frota rent-a-car da Smart Advertising. Os fundos angariados revertem a favor Centro de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento Infantil – CADIn.
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O CADIn é uma IPSS
- Instituição Particular de Solidariedade Social que tem por objectivo último a integração na Sociedade
das crianças e jovens com perturbações do desenvolvimento.
Em Portugal há cerca de 100.00 crianças com alterações do desenvolvimento.
O apoio a estas crianças, que muitas vezes apresentam dificuldades em múltiplas áreas, deverá ser realizado em Centros capazes de integrar técnicos de diferentes especialidades, da Neurologia e Psiquiatria ao Desenvolvimento, da terapia da fala à intervenção psico-pedagógica. |
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