The instrument loan scheme, managed by the María Agustí Foundation and the Association for Child Hemiparesis, will last 3 years beginning in the school year 2017-2018.
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 30 recorders that have been adapted for children with hemiparesis. The initiative, for the families of school children with the neurological disease residing in Spain, will provide 30 recorders: 15 for the left hand and 15 for the right hand. The scheme will run for 3 years beginning in the school year 2017-2018. Once the loaning period ends, the recorders will be passed on to another group of 30 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, Albacete, Alicante, Barcelona, Madrid, Toledo, Zaragoza, Vizcaya, Guipúzcoa, Sevilla, Asturias, Pontevedra, Valencia, Ciudad Real, Cádiz and the Balearic Islands 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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