It targets 23 children in its first cycle

"Community Development" in Dubai develops children's skills with "water activities"

Functional water activities program helps develop cognitive and sensory skills in children.

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The Community Development Authority in Dubai launched the first season of a program of functional water activities for children affiliated with the Dubai Child Development Center, which is held in the swimming pool of an academy sports in Al Barsha Community Center in Dubai and lasts for three months.

In its first session, 23 children from the center will benefit from the programme, who are distributed over weekly sessions so that the session includes three children, allowing all preventive and protective measures related to children to be taken.

The Dubai Child Development Center seeks, through this program, to benefit from proven experiences in the field of the impact of water activities on the motor, sensory and social abilities of children, as it is expected to contribute to enhancing their confidence and independence, increasing their sense of safety and comfort, and reducing feelings of tension, in addition to developing cohesion and social integration. for the child through interaction with group play.

Mariam Al Hammadi, Acting Director of the People of Determination Department at the Community Development Authority, indicated that the center seeks to adopt the latest therapeutic and rehabilitative practices to expand the children's benefit from rehabilitation programs and help them develop their skills further in line with the different development plans for each of them.

Al Hammadi said: "The specialists at the Dubai Child Development Center deal with each child separately according to well-studied treatment plans that are developed for him when he joins the center and are reviewed periodically, according to the stages of his development. We are working to attract and adopt successful rehabilitation programs and solutions that are appropriate to the needs of our children, giving them various opportunities to integrate and develop in different circumstances and environments, and enhance their social skills along with their motor and sensory abilities.”