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• Negin Asr Rehabilitation Centre started its activities in Mashad city in 1995 and still continuing its program.
• In 1997 Vali-Asr Comprehensive Rehabilitation Centre was established in Tehran for providing clinical rehabilitation services for children with cerebral palsy and mentally retarded children. It was one of the earliest centers in this field inaugurated under the name of Navid Asr rehabilitation centre and located in Tehran, its activities have now been transferred to this new centre.
• In 1998, the branch of Vali-Asr Rehabilitation Foundation was set up in Kashan city for screening neurological problems in new born babies. Now Negar Asr Comprehensive Rehabilitation Centre provides rehabilitation services for high risk babies and children under 6 years old with physical and mental disabilities in a new constructed building.
• In 2003, Vali Asr Foundation started its activities In Shiraz city by establishing Forough Asr Comprehensive Rehabilitation Centre.
This center like the other VRF centers provides high standard rehabilitation services.
• In 2005, Navid Asr Comprehensive Rehabilitation centre started its activities for needy children of central and southern parts of Tehran.
• In 2005, Omid Asr Comprehensive Rehabilitations Centre was inaugurated and aimed at utilizing new techniques and approaches in the rehabilitation of neurologically disabled children. This centre is also active in the field of monitoring child development and Learning Disabilities with great success.
in addition to providing clinical rehabilitation services, these two centre also provide, special professional services for CP children.
The rehabilitation services are for children with developmental delays, physically and mentally disabled children and school students (first and second grade), daycare services (under 6 years old) and vocational skills training (above 14 years).
• In the past two years one of the important investment of the VRF was capacity
building in its activities domin.
A great investment was also done in introducing new techniques such as Conductive Education (CE) and Adeli Suit and organizing related training courses both inside and outside the country. The benefits can be observed in all VRF clinic services.
These new approaches in services provision are most welcome by disabled families and at the same time disabled children of neighbo uring countries are also referred to these rehabilitation services.
• In order to promote a positive image of disabled people, and changing the negative attitude towards them, practical action was taken by investing in a film production .
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