Members of the \u201cEnabled Theatre\u201d Project production team led by\u00a0 director of East West Centre Sarajevo HarisPa\u0161ovi\u0107 and Project Coordinator of the \u201cGrad Teatar\u201d Festival Aleksandra Maslovar on Friday, April 7, held a third workshop with beneficiaries and employees of the \u201cDay Centre for Children and Adolescents with Disabilities \u201cBiseri\u201d in Budva.<\/p>\n
Actors of the Serbian National Theatre worked with the beneficiaries in small groups and individually.<\/p>\n
Members of the Project them talked with Biljana Jerkovi\u0107 and Olga Kapi\u010di\u0107, parents of children with disabilities.<\/p>\n
Mrs. Jerkovi\u0107, who is a member of the Board of Directors of JU \u201cBiseri\u201d, introduced the members of the Project team to the circumstances of the birth and daily life with her daughter An\u0111ela, a twenty-year-old who suffers from a severe form of autism. Mrs. Jerkovi\u0107, among other things, underlined the feeling of social stigmatization that children with developmental disabilities and their families carry.<\/p>\n
Members of the Project team also spoke with Mrs. Olga Kapi\u010di\u0107, mother of Uro\u0161, a beneficiary of the Centre. Mrs. Kapi\u010di\u0107 informed the members of the Project team about the long and arduous process that eventually led to the diagnosis of autism in her first-born son. She especially emphasized the problems in primary education, since then the process of inclusion had just begun at the time for which the educational institutions were not prepared .<\/p>\n
April 7th 2023.<\/p>\n