Thursday 23 May at 7.30 pm the Lions Clubs of District 108Ia2 are organizing a fundraising dinner at the Gaggiola dei Frati Minori canteen to complete the project: “A multisensory room at the Isa 7 La Spezia Comprehensive Institute for the inclusion of pupils with autism”. The Roverano Lions Club, promoter of the project in the year 2020-21, thanks to its member Nadia Crucillà, coordinator of the project and the President Mirella Orgallo, immediately involved all the clubs in the C – V District in the network: Cinque Terre, Colli Spezzini, Luni, Valle del Vara, Vara Sud, Portovenere Torre Scola who over the years have contributed to purchasing the material necessary to set up the Multisensory Room with the Snoezelen Method. A room to stimulate the five senses of autistic students, and not only with a view to inclusion with sounds, colours, smells and thematic displays and with an independent entrance which in the future will allow the school to open it to the territory.
The project conceived by the support teachers of the “Giosuè Carducci” primary school saw the creation of an inclusive space equipped with materials purchased by the clubs: tubes with bubbles that provide visual stimuli with their play of color and vibrations that can be felt by touching glass and auditory with movements associated with music; a projector of images associated with sounds, music and voices that combine different stimuli; a luminous waterfall, whose filaments can be handled and explored and which change color to promote awareness of light. To complete it, a vibro-acoustic mattress with water is missing which stimulates the perception of one’s body and allows you to feel the vibrations produced to the rhythm of music, and it is precisely to raise the necessary funds that the Lions Clubs wanted to organize the dinner in Gaggiola.
