The functions of Morning Star Center
Morning Star Center is an NGO, non-profit organization founded in 1995 under the governance of Vietnam Relief Association for handicapped chidren. The center carries the missions of providing services of early detection, early intervention for children with intellectual disabilities including Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, mental delay, sensory disorders, ADHD and developmental disorder – asperger, autism spectrum disorder. Besides, the center implements education programs including pre-primary education, vocational training programs.
After the duration of intensive early intervention at the center to develop the children’s different skills including communication, speech, independence, many students have left the center and integrated into new inclusive education settings in primary schools and kindergartens.
Morning Star Center provides services of consultancy, care giving and high-quality intervention for children with intellectuald disabilities through the combination between medicine and education. The center has been applying many advanced intervention approaches such as Early Start Denver Model (ESDM), speech therapy, rehabilitation therapy, sensory therapy. The programs develop variety of skills including social interactions, speech, communication, fine motor, gross motor, play, sensory regulation as well as reveal the hiden ability of art, music and sport of the students. In fact, along with disabilities, every child have their own talents which will be developed fully if they are nutured in the environment that each individual’s initiation is encouraged and they receive the individualized education programs.
In recent years, Morning Star Center has enhanced training activities to improve teaching skills for teachers from other centers and integrated its model within other centers in differenent provinces so that more and more children with disabilities get benifit from Morning Star intervention model. Besides, the center has been providing training to parents to improve their skills of teaching and playing with their children.
Morning Star Center attaches importance on improving teaching methods, enhancing the comprehensive skill development programs. The center is striving to provide the best quality services of caregiving and intervention to ensure that the students will get improvements and integrate into normal society as the normals, thus reduce their burden on their families and the whole society.
