The Center for Comprehensive Care for Disability (CAID) celebrates its ninth anniversary of uninterrupted work changing the lives of boys and girls up to 12 years of age with Down syndrome, cerebral palsy and autism.
Between January and October of this year, the Comprehensive Care Center for Disability (CAID) has provided 72,532 services to children from zero to 12 years of age in its three centers in Santo Domingo, Santiago and San Juan de la Maguana.
Of these attentions, more than 59,000 correspond to therapeutic services. Of these, the largest part has corresponded to speech therapies with 11,000, and 8,000 to early intervention. It has also offered more than 12,000 medical services, mainly pediatric consultations, evaluation and diagnosis, and pediatric dentistry.
“At CAID we celebrate another year changing the lives of boys and girls who receive care, as well as that of their families, which is reflected in these figures. Our main interest is to continue providing a quality service to each one of them,” said Father Jorge William Hernández Díaz, president of CAID.
Anniversary
As part of the celebrations for the ninth anniversary of CAID, at the Santo Domingo Oeste headquarters there was an act of raising the flag and a mass of thanks officiated by Father Hernández Díaz in which the members of the Board of Directors of the entity, collaborators from this headquarters, boys and girls who receive care and their families.
In the same way, simultaneous activities were carried out at the Santiago and San Juan offices in which the regional directors, collaborators and relatives of the users of the center participated.
About CAID
As an institution specialized in the evaluation, diagnosis and rehabilitation of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), cerebral palsy (CP) and Down syndrome, the CAID has three regional centers organized in a network and coordinated by an executing unit at by Dr. Henry Rosa, national director.
