ASNIMO (Down SYndrome Association of the Balearic Islands)
ASNIMO IS A MEMBER OF:
DSI: Down Syndrome International
EDSA: European Down Syndrome Association
DOWN ESPAÑA: Spanish Federation for Down Syndrome
UNAC: Union of Associations and Centres of Assistance for Disabled People in the Balearic Islands
CONTENTS
1. Introduction
2. ASNIMO’s work in assistance and education
3. Support for the Down Syndrome associations movement
4. ASNIMO’s task in research, teaching and publications
5. Conclusions
6. ASNIMO Governing Board
7. ASNIMO team
8. ASNIMO’s immediate projects
1.Introduction
The Balearic Islands Down Syndrome Association - ASNIMO was founded in Palma de Mallorca on 20 November 1976, as a non-profit organisation dedicated to helping people with Down Syndrome in the Balearic Islands. It was the first Down Syndrome association to be constituted in Spain. This year, 2006, it therefore is celebrating its first 30 years in existence.
ASNIMO today provides assistance through its different services to 412 people with Down Syndrome in the Balearic Islands (including Menorca, Ibiza and Formentera). It is the owner of the Príncipe de Asturias Centre in Marratxí, a centre officially declared as being of preferential social interest (R.D. 3260/78. BOE 29 January 79).
It has a workforce of 48 professional staff, as well as other specialists who collaborate and a team of volunteers. The Parents’ Association (ASPANIMO) is an active organisation with constant initiatives for those we help and their families.
ASNIMO collaborates with the Balearic Islands Administration though agreements for providing specialised services for people with Down Syndrome in the Balearic Islands, and every year it voluntarily submits to an official audit of its accounts. The population with Down Syndrome served by ASNIMO today represents 85% of people affected by this syndrome in the Balearic Islands.
ASNIMO has worked for these last thirty years towards the following objectives:
a) To fight for the recognition and exercising of the rights that are accorded to each person with Down Syndrome by the International Laws.
b) To study and research Down Syndrome from the angle of specificity and contribute scientific advances to education and care practice in order to achieve improvements.
c) To offer members of the association a comprehensive range of quality health, education and assistance services in all the life stages of people with Down Syndrome.
d) To focus all activity on achieving the autonomy and normalisation of people with Down Syndrome.
2.ASNIMO’s assistance and education work
Over the last 30 years ASNIMO has catered for the needs of people with Down Syndrome in the Balearic Islands whatever their life stage. The services it has provided are as follows:
1. Prenatal diagnosis and genetic counselling
2. Early intervention
3. Mobile integration support units
4. Special education units
5. Adult life transition units
6. Services and treatments
7. Occupational centre
8. Day centre
9. “S’Estel” boarding school
10. Llar Sa Lluna sheltered housing
11. “Sempre Verd” Special Employment Centre
12. Supported employment
13. Medical unit
14. Resources centre and support for integration
15. Leisure and respite for families
16. Parents’ School
PREVENTION AND GENETIC COUNSELLING.
With this service, the ASNIMO professional staff analyse risk factors, inform about Centres and techniques for prenatal diagnosis, and offer genetic counselling for families and any person who requests it.
EARLY INTERVENTION
This service offers children with Down Syndrome (aged 0 to 5 years) the specialised and necessary stimulation (sensorial, cognitive, motor and affective) so that their development can be adapted as closely as possible to normal parameters. It offers parents information and guidelines regarding the acceptance and education of their child.
MOBILE INTEGRATION SUPPORT UNITS
When children reach the age of three years they attend mainstream education centres (in their neighbourhood or village) where specialist staff from ASNIMO provide them with support services (speech therapy, psychomotor skills, psychotherapy, etc.). Currently 28 children aged between 4 and 16 years are receiving this service.
SPECIAL EDUCATION UNITS.
Unfortunately some children, owing to their limitations and to collateral effects of Down Syndrome, require singular and highly specialised attention and so cannot attend mainstream schools. To help them, ASNIMO has 4 “special education” units approved by the Board of Education which cater for 15 pupils.
ADULT LIFE TRANSITION UNITS
When school years come to an end our pupils attend these units to prepare themselves for adult life and for work in sectors such as gardening, administration and the retail trade. Sixteen young people are currently participating in these programmes.
SERVICES AND TREATMENTS
ASNIMO offers the collective of Down Syndrome people of different ages the following services:
Speech therapy: for the introduction and development of language and communication
Physiotherapy: for rehabilitation for the spinal cord and locomotive system problems that frequently affect people with Down Syndrome.
Psychotherapy: for the treatment of behaviour problems and reinforcement of self-esteem and personal autonomy.
Psychomotor skills: for the rational control of movement and in general of the body (coordination, walking, and balance).
Sports: to maintain physical fitness and as a means of personal growth and social integration.
School support: for pupils integrated at mainstream schools who need specialist support.
OCCUPATIONAL CENTRE
ASNIMO maintains an Occupational Centre that carries out intense activity in five different sections where candidates are introduced to working, receive specialised training courses and prepare to go to work. These sections are: gardening, bakery, furniture restoration, dried flower craft and services provision. This year 62 young people have received this occupational training which in many cases leads to work in ordinary companies.
DAY CENTRE
Where 18 adults with Down Syndrome and severe added physical, behavioural or mental problems, receive every care as well as the treatment and rehabilitation they need.
“S’ESTEL” BOARDING SCHOOL
Open and operational from Monday to Friday during 220 days a year (the school year) with pupils from Menorca, Ibiza, Formentera and distant villages of Mallorca boarding in a family environment.
LLAR SA LLUNA
SHELTERED HOUSING
Open and operational 365 days a year, this is a permanent home for 11 adults with Down Syndrome (aged between 30 and 60 years) whose families are unable or are unwilling to provide care.
“SEMPRE VERD” SPECIAL EMPLOYMENT CENTRE
SEMPRE VERD INVERNADEROS S.L. is a Special Employment Centre that was created in 1992. This means it is a company that has the same duties and obligations as other companies, and that competes in a free market, but a number of its workers are people with disability, and in our case, people with Down Syndrome.
The company boasts modern facilities of 3,000 square metres of aluminium and glass greenhouses, equipped with advanced technology (automatic programming of watering systems, shade, humidity, air circulation, temperature, etc.) which is dedicated exclusively to the cultivation and sale of ornamental tropical plants across the whole of the island of Mallorca.
There are 18 people working for Sempre Verd, 10 of whom are workers of both sexes aged between 23 and 45 years and with Down Syndrome.
PROGRAMME OF JOB INTEGRATION INTO
ORDINARY COMPANIES
Our association is certain that the best thing we can do today for people with Down Syndrome is prepare them to work, help them find employment, and support them in their job.
ASNIMO has an agreement with the UNAC (Union of Associations and Centres of Assistance for Disabled People in the Balearic Islands) which runs a Council-subsidised Employment and Training scheme in the Balearic Islands known as the “Itinerary for Guidance, Training and Employment Integration for people with disability”. Future workers obtain work experience in ordinary companies and when they are ready to work, help is given in finding employment and they are supported in their job by a support specialist, using the “supported work” technique. Today we have young people with Down Syndrome working in Banks and Building Societies, garden maintenance, travel agents, hotels, leisure centres, restaurants, hypermarkets, etc.; as well as in auxiliary posts in the regional and local administrations.
MEDICAL UNIT
ASNIMO also has a Medical Unit. A paediatrician, a neurologist and a rehabilitation specialist each attend twice per week to provide healthcare for people with Down Syndrome of all ages. The doctors produce medical reports for those people with Down Syndrome who need them and carry out exploratory examinations, regular medical check-ups and consultations at the request of families. The protocol followed is the “Spanish Preventive Medicine Programme for Down Syndrome”. ASNIMO also has a team of external medical advisers. ASNIMO maintains an important computerised medical database on Down Syndrome and is carrying out a longitudinal study on the health of people who have visited this unit
CENTRE FOR RESOURCES AND SUPPORT FOR INTEGRATION
Normalisation and integration have been, for many years, an obsession for the ASNIMO team, whose objective is to gradually transform its assistance services into support services for integration that are provided within the ordinary community settings (education centres, health centres, work centres, etc.) where our pupils are integrated. This centre offers the following services: 1) guidance and orientation on Down Syndrome for those centres, healthcare professionals or families that request it 2) documentation: specialised library and video library. 3) translation and adaptation of specialised texts and training materials. It recently signed a collaboration agreement with the Down Syndrome Educational Trust (University of Portsmouth, UK) for the translation, adaptation and dissemination in Spain and Ibero-America of new teaching material.
3.Support for the Down Syndrome associations movement
Since its foundation ASNIMO understood that people with mental disability should not all be classed in the same group and that it was necessary to consider specialised attention for people with Down Syndrome. For that reason it started up the Spain’s first specific Association for Down Syndrome in Mallorca; and from there it has worked intensively to promote the creation of associations in all the Spanish provincial capitals and towards the constitution (in 1991) of the Spanish Federation of Institutions for Down Syndrome, FEISD, of which it is promoter and founder. Today this Federation, whose president for seven years was the Director of ASNIMO, has representation in all of Spain’s Autonomous Communities with 70 member Associations, and has changed its name to Down España.
ASNIMO was also a founding member of the European Federation for Down Syndrome (EDSA) which has its headquarters in Brussels. It groups together Federations of Down Syndrome associations from 18 countries in Europe, and its current President is the Director of ASNIMO. EDSA is a full member of the EUROPEAN DISABILITY FORUM (EDF).
ASNIMO was also a founding member of the International Down Syndrome Federation (DSI) which is based in Portsmouth, UK. It has been an active and committed member of DSI and in October 1997 organised the 6th World Congress on Down Syndrome in Madrid. This event for the first time brought together 2,300 delegates from 68 countries and 28 of the world’s top experts on Down Syndrome.
The presence of ASNIMO in the Associations movement for people with disability in the Balearic Islands has also been important as it was a founding member of the UNAC (Balearic Islands Union of Associations and Care Centres for the Disabled), a Federation that today encompasses 70% of the Associations working for disability in the Balearic Islands. The Director of ASNIMO was promoter and first President of the UNAC. He occupied the post for eight years and since 1991 has occupied the post of Director.
4.The work of ASNIMO in the areas of research, teaching and publications
It can be seen from the above that the work of ASNIMO in the assistance and education areas has been significant, as has the work carried out in favour of the associations movement specialising in Down Syndrome.
The ASNIMO team understood that it was necessary to provide this associations movement which today is spread around the world with a philosophy and a scientific basis. This meant launching – in the scientific literature and in publications specialising in Down Syndrome – the theory of “specificity in Down Syndrome”.
What is the specificity theory? In summary: Current research shows that mental disability cannot be tackled as a unique entity, rather to the contrary it encompasses very different and differentiated profiles, both from the viewpoint of neuropsychology and that of educational psychology.
Recognising specificity means recognising the identity of a certain syndrome, in our case Down Syndrome. It means studying which are the typical characteristics that define it and do not feature (or do feature but in a different way or an unequal proportion) in other types of mental disability. It means differentiating in a scientifically objective way, which is not without its gaps and difficulties, what is common with other types of mental retardation and what is exclusive to Down Syndrome.
Specificity in Down Syndrome means an extra chromosome on pair 21 (or an essential part of it) which appears in the genetic (karyotype) map of people with Down Syndrome and which is responsible for the alterations of a morphological, biochemical and functional type that arise in different organs and especially the brain during different life phases.
The study of the molecular structure of chromosome 21, and what we know today about the 225 genes that it accommodates, gives evidence of a series of genetic abnormalities (specific to Down Syndrome and therefore that do not appear in other syndromes or chromosome alterations) which in turn lead to abnormalities, also specific, in the structure and functioning of the brain and of the nervous system as well as the learning and behaviour mechanisms of people with Down Syndrome.
If we study and get to know these aspects that are typical of and “specific” to Down Syndrome, we will be able to design and construct the most direct, rapid and effective methods for compensating and palliating the limitations that undoubtedly are produced by the presence of this extra chromosome.
Isolating, studying and describing these specific aspects of Down Syndrome has been the work that the ASNIMO technical team has been developing during these last 30 years, in collaboration with scientists from Universities worldwide and this work has been the central pillar of the last 4 worldwide congresses on Down Syndrome which were held in Orlando (1994), Madrid (1997), Sydney (2000) and Singapore (2003).
All these scientific studies have been published in numerous articles in specialised magazines and in some of the publications that are listed later in this report.
Over the course of these years ASNIMO has also been concerned with bringing together the world’s top experts on Down Syndrome to debate and study “aspects of specificity” in depth at the following international events:
1991- 1ST INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON DOWN SYNDROME (Palma de Mallorca)
1993- 2ND INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON DOWN SYNDROME (Palma de Mallorca)
1995- 3RD INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON DOWN SYNDROME (Palma de Mallorca)
1997- 6TH WORLD CONGRESS ON DOWN SYNDROME (Madrid)
2001- 5TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON DOWN SYNDROME (Palma de Mallorca, 23-25 February). Club Diario de Mallorca.
2005- 6TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON DOWN SYNDROME (Palma de Mallorca, 25-27 February). University of the Balearic Islands.
2008- 7th INTERNATRIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON EARLY INTERVENTION IN DOWN SYNDROME AND OTHER DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES (Palma de Mallorca, 21-23 November 2008)
Moreover in 1987 ASNIMO signed a Collaboration Agreement with the UIB (UNIVERSITY OF THE BALEARIC ISLANDS), with two specific objectives:
a) Students from the Faculties of Psychology, Pedagogy and Teacher Training to do official work experience (with academic credits) at the ASNIMO Príncipe de Asturias Centre.
b) ASNIMO technical staff to participate as teachers in the courses and master’s degrees organised by the UIB.
The result of this collaboration has been the training of numerous professionals (psychologists, doctors, educational psychologists, speech therapists, etc.) who in the Balearic Islands and other points of Spain and Latin America provide specialised attention for people with Down Syndrome.
We feel that it is important to highlight some of the publications from recent years that have been edited by the ASNIMO technical team and that are basic for learning about the “specificity theory” as it relates to Down Syndrome. These publications are as follows:
- Perera, J. (Dir.): “Síndrome de Down. Programa de acción educativa”. CEPE. Madrid 1991.
- Perera, J. (Dir.): “Síndrome de Down. Aspectos específicos”. Masson. Barcelona 1993.
- Perera, J., Rondal, J.A.: “Cómo hacer hablar al niño con síndrome de Down y mejorar su lenguaje: un programa de intervención psicolingüistica”. Edit. Cepe. Madrid 1995.
- Rondal, J.A., Perera, J., Nadel, L., Comblain, A.: “Down´s syndrome: psychological, psychobiologial and socioeducational perspectives”. Whurr Publishers Ltd. London 1996.
- Translation into Spanish of the previous book: Rondal, J.A., Perera, J., Nadel, L., Comblain, A.: “Síndrome de Down: perspectivas psicológica, psicobiológica y socioeducacional”. Instituto de Migraciones y Servicios Sociales. Imserso. Madrid 1997.
- Rondal, J.A., Perera, J., Nadel, L.: “Down Syndrome. A review of current knowledge”. Whurr Publishers Ltd. London 1999.
- Translation into Spanish of the previous book: Rondal, J.A, J. Perera, Nadel, L: “Síndrome de Down. Revisión de los últimos conocimientos”. Espasa. Madrid 2000.
- Rondal, J.A., Perera, J.: “Down Syndrome Neurobehavioral Specificity”. John Wiley & Sons. Chichester 1996.
- Buckley, S., Bird, G., Perera, J.: “Habla, Lenguaje y Comunicación en alumnos con síndrome de Down. Recursos para padres y profesores”. Ed. CEPE. Madrid 2004
- Buckley, S., Bird, G., Sacks, B., Perera, J.: “Vivir con el síndrome de Down. Una introducción para padres y profesores”. Ed. CEPE. Madrid 2005
- Buckley, S., Bird, G., Perera, J., et al.: “Educación, acceso al currículum, lectura y escritura para alumnos con síndrome de Down”. Ed. CEPE. Madrid 2006
- Buckley, S., Bird, G., Perera, J.,: “Desarrollo de habilidades numéricas y motoras para alumnos con síndrome de Down”. Ed. CEPE. Madrid 2006
It is also worth mentioning that there are ASNIMO members forming part of the Editorial Boards of the main magazines on Down Syndrome published in Europe today, which are as follows:
Down Syndrome Research and Practice (UK)
Trisomie 21 (Belgium)
Down UP (Holland)
Leben mit Down-syndrom (Germany)
Down (Spain)
Finally it is worth highlighting the fact that ASNIMO professionals have taken part as speakers at all the important congresses held on Down Syndrome worldwide and furthermore have taught courses on different aspects of Down Syndrome at numerous universities on the five continents and very especially in Latin America.
5.Conclusions
ASNIMO, in connection with other international organisations, prominently including the NDSS (National Down Syndrome Society) from the USA, DSET (Down Syndrome Educational Trust) from the UK, DSRP (Down Syndrome Research and Practice) from Canada, the Down Syndrome Foundation of Cantabria, AVESID (Down Syndrome Association of Venezuela), DSSA (Down Syndrome Association of South Africa), the Catalan Foundation for Down Syndrome, the ADSS (Australian Down Syndrome Association) etc. has contributed effectively towards the scientific and specific study of Down Syndrome and towards the consolidation of the movement specialising in this syndrome worldwide.
As a result of this continued work over a period of 30 years, ASNIMO has contributed, through specific attention, improving the quality of life of people with Down Syndrome who can today face the future with a new image full of optimism.
The specific attention mentioned has already led to:
LONGER LIFE EXPECTANCY AND A BETTER STATE OF HEALTH THROUGHOUT LIFE
In the year 1900 the life expectancy of a child with Down Syndrome was around 9 years. Currently it is around 55 years, and one out of every ten people with Down Syndrome will reach the age of 70 years.
BETTER INTELLECTUAL FUNCTIONING
The intellectual level that today stands as the average is a moderate mental retardation. In fact, in between 70 and 80% of children with Down Syndrome are today capable of reading and writing and are educated at ordinary schools.
GREATER SKILL AND RESPONSIBILITY FOR CARRYING OUT USEFUL AND PAID EMPLOYMENT
The majority of people with Down Syndrome today are capable of working. Experiences in this field show us that work transforms their lives because it gives them – just as it gives us – a project for the future.
A GREATER DEGREE OF AUTONOMY AND INDEPENDENCE TO GUIDE THEM IN THE FUTURE
Because their longer life expectancy and higher intellectual level lead to new needs: affective relationships, life with a partner, etc.
At present it is possible that the majority of people with Down Syndrome will outlive their parents and that their siblings will not be able or will not want to take care of them. That is why it is so important to encourage their personal autonomy, their capacity for making decisions, their training in values, their independent living in small sheltered units, etc.
A GREATER CAPACITY TO LIVE AN INDEPENDENT LIFE FULLY INTEGRATED IN THE COMMUNITY
The image of people with Down Syndrome has changed. For that reason they are increasingly better accepted by society. Nobody is struck today if they see a person with Down Syndrome using community services in the cinema or at the hypermarket or on public transport in an autonomous way.
Finally we would like to highlight that achievements of ASNIMO are the result of constant, self-sacrificing efforts by a team of professional staff which has worked in a united and motivated way, with the constant support of a Governing Board that has trusted in the team and provided it with all kinds of facilities for carrying out its task.
We also feel that it is only fair to highlight the constant support that we have received from the Balearic Islands Government, and its Departments of the Presidency and Sports, of Education and Culture, of Employment and Training, of Health and Consumer Affairs, and of the Environment as well as the Mallorca Island Council and the Institute of Social Services and Sports without whose contributions it would have been impossible to carry out these actions in favour of people with Down Syndrome.
6. Governing Board of ASNIMO
PRESIDENTE Dña. Pilar Salas González
VICEPRESIDENTE Dña. Antonia Solivellas Genestar
SECRETARIO –
TESORERO Dña. Carmen Crespo Vicos
VOCALES
Dña. Glynnis Rowley
D. Fernando Gonzalez Moreno
D. Juan Veny Roca
D. Juan Perera Mezquida
7.ASNIMO team
MANAGEMENT
Mr. JUAN PERERA MEZQUIDA (Director)
Ms. CARMEN CRESPO VICOS (Administrator)
Ms. RAQUEL MARIN SEGUI (Director’s Assistant)
SPECIALIST STAFF
Ms CRISTINA MIRALLES ISERN (Psychologist)
Ms JOSE MANUEAL MOLINA (Psychologist)
Ms LAURA PUEYO PARDO (Occupational Therapist)
Ms RAQUEL BURGOS (Speech Therapist)
Ms LINA RAMIS(Speech Therapist)
Ms. MARIA MANRESA (Physiotherapist)
Ms. RITA COLL MATEU (Psychologist)
Ms. Mª JOSE FRONTERA SIERRA (Educator)
Ms. PAZ BARCELO (Educator)
Ms. CARMEN GRANERO BIASSONI (Physiotherapist)
Ms. SILVIA CASTELL SERRA (Educator)
DOCTORS
Ms. AMPARO DE JUAN CARRASCO (Traumatologist)
Mr. ANTONIO ROSSIÑOL FAR (Neurologist)
Mr. JUAN VENY ROCA (Paediatrician)
TEACHERS
D. LUIS ADELER REGALADO (INEF Grad.)
D. RAFAEL ROSELLO (Phys. Ed. Teacher)
Dª JUANA Mª COLL FRAU (Gardening teacher)
Dª ANABEL GADEA DOMÍNGUEZ (Special Education Teacher)
Dª CARMEN GUTIERREZ GARCIA (Special Education Teacher)
Dª CONSUELO DE LA OSA GOMEZ (Special Education Teacher)
Dª Mª ISABEL LLOMPART HOMAR (Special Education Teacher)
Dª CHELO COMPANY CASTILLO (Special Education Teacher)
Dª LUCIA FITA CASAL (Special Education Teacher)
Dª TERESA OLIVER OLIVER (TVA Teacher)
Dª PAZ GONZALEZ URBANEJA (Teacher)
MONITORS
Dª JOSEFA ESTRANY CANOVAS (Workshop monitor)
Dª ISABEL GARCIAS ADROVER (Workshop monitor)
Dª VICTORIA JIMÉNEZ DIAZ (Workshop monitor)
Dª MARGARITA RAMOS MONTSERRAT (Workshop monitor)
Dª JULIA LLABRES RODRÍGUEZ (Workshop monitor)
Dª ADORACIÓN MUÑOZ CONTRERAS (Day Centre Monitor)
Dª CHARO BORRAS LOPEZ (Day Centre Monitor)
CARERS
Dª MILAGROS BARANDIARIAIN LEDO
Dª MARIA ANTONIA CATALA MOYA
Dª CATALINA SERRA BOVER
Dª ANA TERESA SANCHO PEREZ
Dª ANTONIA CALDES AMER
Dª CATALINA NADAL PRADAS
Dª PILAR MENDOZA CABRERA
Dª TERESA SALOM THOMAS
Dª MARIA ISABEL MINGOLLA
ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICES
Ms. URSULA FADRIQUE(Reception)
Ms. MAGDALENA MUNAR SERRA (Accounts)
Mr. ANTONIO GARCIA CHERINO (Cook)
Ms. CATALINA SANTANDREU JUAN (Waitress)
Ms. ANTONIA SANTANDREU JUAN (Cleaner)
Ms. JOSEFINA TUDELA MARTINEZ (Cleaner)
Ms. Mª JESÚS DIAZ ROMERO (Cleaner)
Mr. FRANCISCO MENDOZA CABRERA (Maintenance)
Mr. TONXO IVANOV (Maintenance Assistant)
8.Immediate projects for ASNIMO
ASNIMO’S concern with providing a response to the needs of people with Down Syndrome in the Balearic Islands as these arise is currently focused on the following projects:
Developing the recently created “DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION OF THE BALEARIC ISLANDS” with the functions of guardianship of people and property and with the main objective – repeatedly requested by families – of caring for people with Down Syndrome in old age especially when their parents are no longer able to do so.
The EXTENSION OF THE ASNIMO“SEMPRE VERD” SPECIAL EMPLOYMENT CENTRE, dedicating the current facilities exclusively to the production of plants and creating a new GARDEN CENTRE dedicated to the commercialisation of plants and accessories. This will mean work in a normalised business environment can be given to a further 30 young people with Down Syndrome who are awaiting this work opportunity. The final touches have been added to the project and it is just awaiting the cession of a plot from Marratxí Town Council.
The EXTENSION OF THE ASNIMO FACILITIES on a plot ceded by Palma City Council in which the following services will be located: a) A NEW RESIDENCE (365 days) for adults with Down Syndrome and Alzheimer’s typology (we have a waiting list of 22 people); b) the HEADQUARTERS OF THE BALEARIC ISLANDS DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION; c) an OCCUPATIONAL TRAINING CENTRE; d) the EARLY INTERVENTION SERVICE.
The implementation of a QUALITY SYSTEM IN THE MANAGEMENT OF ALL THE SERVICES THAT ASNIMO CURRENTLY OFFERS TO ITS CLIENTS, with the aim of achieving a management that focuses on client-centred continuing improvement criteria and in accordance with ISO 9001 quality standards to obtain the corresponding AENOR certification.
The setting up of a house for an INDEPENDENT LIFE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WITH DOWN SYNDROME PILOT PROJECT in the municipality of Calviá (Mallorca).
OUR THANKS TO:
- BALEARIC ISLANDS GOVERNMENT
- DEPARTMENT OF THE PRESIDENCY AND SPORTS
- DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND CULTURE
- DEPARTMENT OF EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING
- DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND CONSUMER AFFAIRS
- DEPARTMENT OF TRADE, INDUSTRY AND ENERGY (IDI)
- DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHING
- MALLORCA ISLAND COUNCIL
- S’INSTITUT
- PALMA CITY COUNCIL
- CALVIA TOWN HALL
- MARRATXI TOWN HALL
- SA NOSTRA FOUNDATION
- LA CAIXA FOUNDATION
- CAM SOCIAL PROJECTS
- CAJA MADRID SOCIAL PROJECTS
- SOL - MELIA
- IBEROSTAR FOUNDATION
- RIU HOTEL CHAIN
- SERRA GROUP
- UNIVERSITY OF THE BALEARIC ISLANDS
- ROBERT WINSOR CHARITY GOLF
- CARREFOUR FOUNDATION
- SCHOOL OF HOTEL, CATERING AND TOURISM
CONTACT DETAILS:
ASNIMO (Balearic Islands Down Syndrome Association)
Ctra. Palma – Alcudia, km. 7.5
C.P. 07141 – Marratxí
Balearic Islands
Tel. 971 604914 – Fax 971 604998
e-mail: asnimo@telefonica.net, website: www.asnimo.com
