About Us
The Philip Hayden Foundation Therapy Program was started in July 2007. Our program is guided by the Chinese Proverb, "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." China has limited training or educational programs for rehabilitation. In the past, we have relied on foreign therapists or basic training of our nannies to provide therapy for our children. However, we have found this offers only a limited and short-term solution.
With ther start of our new therapy program, we have hired local college graduates that are bilingual and invited foreign therapists to train them. These trained therapists now provide therapy to the over 80% of children in our care that are in need of it to develop to their full potential. In addition to the therapists' regular therapy sessions, they also provide early intervention training to our nannies, team with our teachers in the classroom, and help our older orphans develop life and job skills.
It is our hope that, as we continue to develop, we can share our knowledge and resources with other orphanages and organizations helping special needs children in China. In the future, we also hope to extend this service to local families with special needs children in the community.
With ther start of our new therapy program, we have hired local college graduates that are bilingual and invited foreign therapists to train them. These trained therapists now provide therapy to the over 80% of children in our care that are in need of it to develop to their full potential. In addition to the therapists' regular therapy sessions, they also provide early intervention training to our nannies, team with our teachers in the classroom, and help our older orphans develop life and job skills.
It is our hope that, as we continue to develop, we can share our knowledge and resources with other orphanages and organizations helping special needs children in China. In the future, we also hope to extend this service to local families with special needs children in the community.
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7.08.2008
Summer Interns
We really are having a hot, busy, but very fun summer with addition of five therapy interns visiting at PHF. The beautiful girl in this picture playing games with our kids is Melissa. Melissa is a special education teacher from America who arrived at PHF in May and will be staying here about three months. She will be working with the therapy department, especially the Little Lambs' teachers provide training about how to teach children with special needs.
Jodi is a speech therapist from America that is coming for 3 weeks to help provide speech therapy training to Laura. Margie, an occupational therapist from England, is a vocational rehabilitation specialist and will be helping us develop a plan for the new vocational rehab center we are developing for older orphans. Janie is an occupational therapy graduate student with a heart for working with families who have adopted internationally. She will be helping with and learning about our general therapy program and giving some extra one-to-one attention to some of our children with more severe delays.
These interns have been such a huge help and so much fun to have