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Tag Archives: leisure
NIDILRR-funded Consumer Products: Accessible Holiday Festivities for Everyone at Home and in the Community
With the holidays around the corner, we’re sharing resources from the NIDILRR grantee community to help family and friends gather together so all can participate! Continue reading
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Tagged families, Holidays, inclusion, leisure, recreation
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ESPURNA Foundation: Promoting the Inclusion of People with Intellectual Disabilities in Colombia
The ESPURNA Foundation (in Spanish) is a non-profit organization in Colombia dedicated to the comprehensive care and inclusion of Colombians with intellectual disabilities (ID). The Foundation was founded in 1996 with the aim of achieving the social and work inclusion … Continue reading
Answered Questions for August 2022: Information on Recreation, Music, Art, and Related Therapies and Mental Health
Answered Questions is a monthly resource for the Spanish language Disability Community that fills an information need. This month’s question is I have a mental health condition and my psychotherapist has advised me that recreational therapy, art therapy, or music … Continue reading
Lescer Foundation: Supporting People with Traumatic Brain Injury, Their Families, and the Professionals who Support Them
The Lescer Foundation (in Spanish) supports the traumatic brain injury (TBI) community in Spain, improving the quality of life through comprehensive care, specialized rehabilitation, and covering their basic and social needs from the beginning rehabilitation until their re-entry into the … Continue reading
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Tagged comprehensive care, families, Fundación Lescer, leisure, recreation, rehabilitation, service providers, Spain, TBI, traumatic brain injury
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Fundación Orange, People with Autism Spectrum Disorders, and Technology
Since its inception in France in 1987, the Fundación Orange is made up of 16 foundations that develop and support projects in 30 countries across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. Fundación Orange coordinates activities and projects within this … Continue reading
Is there a difference between recreational therapy and activity programs?
Recently, we wrote about recreational therapy. However, if you have visited a long-term care center or similar facility, you may have heard of their activity program. You might be wondering: Are activity programs the same as recreational therapy? There are … Continue reading
What is Recreational Therapy?
What do you think of when we say therapy? Do you think of playing a video game, making crafts, or painting a picture? You might if you’ve ever experienced recreational therapy! The American Therapeutic Recreation Association (ATRA) defines recreational therapy … Continue reading
February is International Recreational Therapy/Therapeutic Recreation Month!
February marks this year’s International Recreational Therapy/Therapeutic Recreation (RT/TR) Month. To celebrate, we’d like to share the purpose and some of the benefits of RT/TR. Although RT/TR and Activities seem like just fun and games, there is a purpose for … Continue reading
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Tagged activities, anxiety, arts and crafts, benefits, bingo, children, creative expression, dementia, Disabilities, disability, exercise, International RT/TR Month, leisure, memory, music therapy, NARIC, News, NIDRR, NIDRR projects, NIDRR research, people with disabilities, recreation, recreation therapy, RT, Sundown Syndrome, therapeutic recreation, TR. RT/TR
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