Juarez City.– The hands of Luca, a 4-year-old blind boy, touched a dinosaur for the first time, like him, more than twenty children from the Center for Studies for the Blind AC (CEIAC), had the opportunity to go to the DIF Park, to experience the emotion of feeling and imagining what they commonly do not do in their daily lives.
“It is very cool that they are included in this type of activity and the fact that the adaptations are made is much better for him, because he knows dinosaurs from what we can talk to him about, but it is difficult to find something physical that can make him live the experience of touching them. in real size, but more than anything it is that they are inclusive with them”, said Lucero Valdez Sáenz, mother of the minor.
The children had the opportunity to appreciate the dinosaur exhibit, the interactive farm, and did manual activities related to the theme of recycling.
“Recreational activities with children in the same condition have allowed Luca to learn at the same pace as his peers. Living at CEIAC is inclusive and they go at their own pace, unlike when we lived at the other school with normal-visual children, or those who do see, because the activities are done faster, everything is done at the pace of the majority at that time and here all children have a condition of blindness, or low vision,” said Valdez Sáenz.
Penélope Pedroza, in charge of educational monitoring at CEIAC, mentioned that they were given the opportunity to enter the interactive farm and the dinosaur exhibition 20 minutes in advance.
In the place the infants lived together in an anticipated celebration for Children’s Day, thanks to the donations provided by the community, Pedroza said.
“They are really grateful for the support, the children always leave very happy and also thanks to the donation of sweets, piñatas and financial donations to buy pizzas and food; They will leave very well eaten, with lots of sweets and very happy,” Pedroza said.
For his part, José Luis Quiroz, coordinator of the park, reported that the dinosaur project was focused on the issue of recycling. The exhibition has 3 sections, in which there are 23 robotic dinosaurs that have movement through an air injection system; in another the figures are static and are located in the green area, and a space was also set aside for the recycler,” he said.
“Adapting and accepting is a way of understanding, of putting ourselves in their shoes, that is why we gave them prior access, before the general public for the only occasion (…) so that they would have tact with the dinosaurs, it is a projection that they like change the day and the routine by having the sense to listen to the dinosaur and touch it”, explained Quiroz.
This month approximately 170,000 people have attended the DIF Park, Quiroz explained.
