Los Pipitos

My morning internship is with an organization called Los Pipitos.  This organization works with children and adolescents ages 0-42 on different psychological and physical problems they may have.  This week, I have been working with the speech pathologist.  She has been showing me the different tools she uses to help her patients, and I have helped her make other things. 

Monday I helped Ivis, the speech pathologist, prepare for a presentation she was giving.  She hosted about seven parents and helped them make books in which they could keep pictures.  The pictures were of different foods, verbs, pronouns, and activities.  These books were to help children form sentences.  I helped the parents to make the books out of cardboard.

Today with Ivis, I helped prepare the pool for a therapy session.  This was a free session offered to all of her patients, in order to give them more opportunities to improve their speech and hearing.  Only six patients came, and they all got in to the pool with their parents.  The kids were probably between the age ranges of five and eight.  Their physical abilities also Varied.  The kids and their parents played games like telephone in order to work on speech.  The kids also played games identifying colors or different objects in the pool to help improve their listening skills and word recognition. The session ended with different speech exercises to help the kids more their mouths and tongues. The session was an entertaining and helpful tool for the kids and their parents.