The programme, managed by the María Agustí Foundation and the Association for Child Hemiparesis, has provided a total of 90 recorders in 3 years.
The Ramon Molinas Foundation is collaborating with the María Agustí Foundation and with the Association for Child Hemiparesis with the objective of launching a scheme to provide on loan 50 recorders that have been adapted for children with hemiparesis. The initiative, which was launched in the academic year 2016-2017, is for the families of schoolchildren in Spain affected by neurological disease hemiparesis. 40 recorders have been provided on loan over the course of previous programmes. However, during the academic year 2018-2019, the programme will have access to 50 more instruments: 29 for left-handed children and 21 for right-handed children, 90 recorders altogether. The instruments will be on loan for 3 years, and when this period of time comes to an end, the recorders will be passed on to a new group of children.
The recorder is a key instrument for teaching music in primary school. However, children with hemiparesis are usually given musical instruments that can be played with one hand, like the xylophone. They can therefore feel discriminated against in formative early years of their childhood, a period in which differences between children are mostly physical and when children with hemiparesis should be able to participate in all school activities.
The María Agustí Foundation and with the Association for Child Hemiparesis have managed the process of accepting applications and selecting the scheme’s participants that will be able to take advantage of the instruments from September onwards. Children from the provinces of A Coruña, Asturias, Badajoz, Barcelona, Cáceres, Cádiz, Ceuta, Ciudad Real, Córdoba, Granada, Guipúzcoa, Huelva, Madrid, Málaga Toledo and Zaragoza will participate in the scheme.
The scheme aims to encourage personal autonomy in children with hemiparesis, and to raise awareness of disabilities in schools, demonstrating that limitations do not lie in people, but rather in the external barriers that prevent them from accessing certain resources.
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