The professionals of the ONCE educational care team in Almería have launched a series of initiatives to reinforce the academic activity of students with severe vision disabilities in the province, and thus contribute to better manage the days of confinement at home.
One of the best-received among the students is the video recording of the stories made by students with disabilities that they then share with the rest of the schoolchildren of the educational centers where they study and that they have called ‘Cuentailusión’, as indicated ONCE in a note.
The initiative, called ‘Cuentailusión’, started with Elisa Poyatos, who has served 29 years as a teacher of the Organization. He thought that the examples of Mandarina, a popular Almería storyteller on Youtube, could serve as a practical reference to motivate his students and that they could also be protagonists of their readings.
The videos are published on Fridays on their schools’ blog so that they also have an integrating effect. In some videos, the protagonists are accompanied by a puppet, others by dolls, others by more side stories, while they read the texts and their parents record them through their mobile phones.
“We want them to encourage each other to tell a story. The parents have loved the idea because it is quite satisfying for them to see us to trusting their children,” said Poyatos, to whom in her opinion, the effect of this initiative is “proving positive for all the parties involved. ” “The benefit is something round, something circular, so much for the parents, for the pride of seeing their children in networks can do something different from what they do in class,” she added.
