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Day Care Center

Center for children with severe and profound mental and physical disabilities

The day care center of First Step provides services to children with severe and profound mental and physical disabilities and also children and youth with other mental disabilities expressed with severe behavioral disorders.

Our goal is to ensure a decent, joyful and colorful life of children and youth through developing their functional skills, enhancing the quality of their independent life and promoting their social integration.

DCC program is implemented by a multidisciplinary team (psychologist, pediatrician, occupational therapist, speech therapist and teacher of special development). After a special assessment of each child within the program individual habilitation/rehabilitation and educational plans are developed based on child’s abilities and interests.

Currently the day care center of First Step operates 4 informal programs: Science, Art, Communication, Senso-Motor. This process of informal education is led by two special teachers. The lessons are full of various joyful and encouraging activities which are based on the main principle “learning through playing”. Rehabilitation/habilitation plans and programs of informal education are designed so that they help children to develop all necessary skills, such as self-care, social behavior and verbal/alternative communication for independent living. In addition, our day care center provides children with transportation and two-meals a day.

The licensed capacity of our day care center is 30 children.