Fundaneed News

Mar 31

100 questions for workers, families and users

With the approval of Law 8/2021 of 2 June, on the reform of civil and procedural legislation to support persons with disabilities in the exercise of their legal capacity and its publication in the Official State Gazette on 3 June, an important step has been taken in the adaptation of... read more →
Mar 29

Facilitating communication with Ukrainian children

The professionals of the CEE Hospital San Rafael (Madrid) have developed a Communication Board to facilitate communication with children from Ukraine. This freely available material aims to enable people working with Ukrainian refugees to approach their language in order to reach as many people as possible. Given the urgency with... read more →
Mar 24
Mar 11

Foundations with Ukraine: Your Smile Matters

The Spanish Association of Foundations (AEF) has launched various solidarity initiatives for Ukrainian society. Within the framework of the #fundacionesconucrania programme, the multidisciplinary team of Fundaneed has developed a programme with a series of actions in favour of Ukrainian children, adolescents and young people and their families. This programme called... read more →
Mar 07

Women’s Month: Art exhibition “Women in History”.

As part of the commemoration of Women's Day, Fundaneed invites you to the art exhibition "Women in History" by Marta de Andrés Samaniego. This event aims to give visibility to women with disabilities and will take place from Tuesday 8 to Friday 25 March 2022. The exhibition can be visited... read more →
Mar 07

25 years of CERMI: Progress and challenges to be achieved

The Spanish Committee of Representatives of People with Disabilities (CERMI, Comité Español de Representantes de Personas con Discapacida) is 25 years old, and on the occasion of the commemoration of Women's Day has prepared a manifesto to think about all the progress that has been made in this time and... read more →
Oct 27

Occupational Therapist Day

Hello everybody! I'm Helena, the Occupational Therapist at Fundaneed. Today I am here to talk to you about my profession, what it is and which people we can help. Occupational Therapy is the set of techniques, methods and actions that, through activities applied for therapeutic purposes, prevents and maintains health,... read more →
Sep 14

Differences between Music Education and Music Therapy Session

Often families of children or adult patients ask us music therapy professionals about the true essence of our work, or in more obvious words, they often question us about our therapeutic work. In this short article I would like to explain some of the most basic notions that describe the... read more →
Jun 22

Using the TEACCH method

Speech therapy is the discipline that deals with the prevention, evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of human communication disorders, manifested through alterations in language, speech, voice, hearing or orofacial functions, both in adults and children. For this reason, from our speech therapy service we want to treat all the alterations that... read more →
Oct 22

Not a fashionable disorder

On the 26th of October, an awareness day on ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) will be held in Spain. With this event, we would like to provide anyone interested with some brief reflections on what it means to have a child, family member or friend with this neurodevelopmental disorder. We... read more →