Art program for disabled children in Uzbekistan
I've been posting images of art about disability that I've found on Flickr lately. But there's a program in Uzbekistan that uses art to help integrate disabled children with their nondisabled peers. From a Unicef news story:
Renata Karimova among over hundred of children does not suffer the fate of many other peers. Having come to the "SANVIKT" art rehabilitation Center, the children get opportunities for developing their creative abilities and communicating with healthy peers. "It is impossible to solve a problem of disabled children integration into everyday life without joint education and communication"- says Gulsara Rajapova, the Center Director. "It is a valuable opportunity for healthy children to learn to be tolerant, surmount deep-rooted prejudices and to look widely on life", -she added.And despite some obvious language translation problems, here's another informative article on the program.
For many children staying with the Center is the opportunity for developing their creative abilities, increasing their capacities, acquiring necessary life skills and knowledge for the future realization of their potential.
The program's site, Sanvikt, is not in English. (Russian, maybe?) And the images of the art and people in the program are lovely, but not still images, so I do not know how to put an example here or even describe for the visually impaired, except to say there are dozens of images showing rooms filled from wall to ceiling with art, images of children working on art, and a big mural being painted by many. Anyone with suggestions of how to capture an image or two to put here, please enlighten me.
3 comments:
You should be able to grab still-image copies of the currently displaying pic (or at least the part that's visible) if you use a screen capture program... If the photo is too big to display relevant parts all at once, you could always capture it 2-3 times as different parts become visible, then use a graphics app to put the slices back together.
(I use Screenshot Captor, but it's XP, so that might not be useful if you're using another OS.)
Definitely Russian. Let me know if you need any help translating the words.
If you hit the Fn and the print screen key at the same time you will capture a graphics file in memory you can then past into a graphics program. I use GIMP; it's free. Open GIMP, do a paste as new and it will paste as a new graphics file that you can then save.
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