Project Summary

If you want to gain experience in special need therapy while helping local disabled children and possibly earning credits towards your degree, this is the internship for you!

During your special needs therapy internship, you will be placed in a special education centre in Cusco that hosts over 200 children with different impairments causing them physical, communication and mental disorders caused by autism, intellectual disabilities and cerebral palsy, amongst others. The staff is composed of qualified professionals in the fields of intellectual disabilities, hearing impairment, psychology, social work, physiotherapy amongst others. The centre is well catered for the local children and is equipped with a modern infrastructure and up-to-date technologies thanks to some government funding.

The centre was built with the purpose to educate everyone, not excluding any child. The centre caters for children with special education needs in Peru and Latin America and promotes teaching skills to achieve autonomy working together with the parents.

This special needs therapies internship is a great and rewarding experience to help you grow personally and professionally.

What are the benefits of interning

This internship is an opportunity to gain practical experience within the therapy field for children with a variety of disorders while building your CV/resume and practising a second language. 

During the special needs therapies internship, you will be assigned to a classroom and will have the opportunity to be exposed in more than one therapy areas, depending on the children’s in your classroom. The project hosts therapists in a variety of specialism including physical therapy, psychology, speech therapy, etc. If you have any interest in one in particular, please speak your Kaya advisor about it.

During this internship, you will work with children as well as share your experience and skills with the staff of the centre and support them with their work. The centre has more than 42 years providing education for children with special requirements. It caters towards children between the ages of 3 and 20 years old.

You will be exposed to children with a variety of health conditions making your work more rewarding and challenging. 

Role of the intern

The interns will help the patients in all capacity including improving their speech therapy, acquiring psychomotor skills, and living their day-to-day life at the centre. Interns will also be able to assist in building the capacity needed for the school to support the students in a meaningful way like serving their meals, helping at toilet breaks, etc etc. In addition, interns will also have the opportunity to come up with their own ideas and activities.

Skills Required

No particular skills are required to participate in this project. However, interns with a background in childcare or special needs are greatly appreciated. Also, we recommend a basic level of Spanish, which is useful (level A1 Basic User of CEFR) to enable you to communicate and make the most out of this placement. The knowledge of spanish sign language would also help you get the most out of the placement. And if you have a specific interest in speech therapy, then obviously a more advanced Spanish level will be necessary.

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