https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58 UNICEF article en-us 2016-11-21 13:08:23 UTC 2025-10-21 16:03:28 UTC hello@padlet.com mmoberaitis18 https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139070592 2016-11-21 13:09:57 UTC https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139070592 mmoberaitis18 https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139070780 2016-11-21 13:10:36 UTC https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139070780 mmoberaitis18 https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139071118 Article is based on Sash, a 14 month old baby living in the Kolevka institution. ]]> 2016-11-21 13:11:59 UTC https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139071118 mmoberaitis18 https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139071395 179 children aged 0-8 are kept in the Kolevka institution, all living in rooms with 15-16 children each.  ]]> 2016-11-21 13:13:04 UTC https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139071395 mmoberaitis18 https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139154959 "Two nurses are assigned to each room, which means that the children receive very limited attention. Cuddling, speaking, singing, even diaper changing is in short supply. The children have few toys and rarely go outside."]]> 2016-11-21 17:02:44 UTC https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139154959 mmoberaitis18 https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139155074 Sasha is violent to himself and aggressive towards other children, but when picked up becomes soothed. ]]> 2016-11-21 17:03:07 UTC https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139155074 mmoberaitis18 https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139155245 "According to child psychologists, Sasha’s aggressive behaviour is nothing but a desperate call for attention"]]> 2016-11-21 17:03:41 UTC https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139155245 mmoberaitis18 https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139155398 Sasha acts in this way because he has learned that acting up=attention. The other children haven't caught on, and lay motionless in bed. ]]> 2016-11-21 17:04:08 UTC https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139155398 mmoberaitis18 https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139155616 "Sasha’s resilience is rarely seen in institutionalised young children. For most, inadequate social stimulation and emotional deprivation has a drastic effect on their impressionable and dynamic mind"]]> 2016-11-21 17:04:50 UTC https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139155616 mmoberaitis18 https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139155753 "About 1.5 million children in [central+eastern europe] live in public care."]]> 2016-11-21 17:05:15 UTC https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139155753 mmoberaitis18 https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139155995 "The high number of institutionalized children seems to be the result of poverty (over 10 per cent of the population lives below the poverty line) and a lack of other support systems for parents dealing with a child with disabilities or facing difficulties at home due to substance abuse, domestic violence and mental health problems."]]> 2016-11-21 17:06:09 UTC https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139155995 mmoberaitis18 https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139156388 "In “Stacionar za majku i dete”, a Belgrade institution which houses 300 young children under the age of 3 all children up to 18 months of age receive only medical care and nursing with no psychological or educational programs."]]> 2016-11-21 17:07:28 UTC https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139156388 mmoberaitis18 https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139156633 Staff to child ratio is 1:10, showing in numbers the lack of attention the children receive. ]]> 2016-11-21 17:08:21 UTC https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139156633 mmoberaitis18 https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139156794 "[The] growth failure, known as psycho-social dwarfism, is the result of social and emotional deprivation and overcrowding commonly seen in institutionalised young children."]]> 2016-11-21 17:08:54 UTC https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139156794 mmoberaitis18 https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139157041 Children in institutions who are disabled are not handled properly, sometimes being restrained ]]> 2016-11-21 17:09:40 UTC https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139157041 mmoberaitis18 https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139160412 " The missed milestones in development have a knock on effect and the children never reach their optimal potential for physical and psycho-social growth and development.]]> 2016-11-21 17:19:44 UTC https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139160412 mmoberaitis18 https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139160615 "...little attempt to engage the parents in the physical and emotional care of their child"]]> 2016-11-21 17:20:24 UTC https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139160615 mmoberaitis18 https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139160826 "...[The]  National Plan of Action for Children... will imply a shift away from state residential care and towards a more integrated approach designed to help parents meet the needs of the child and to create support in the communities in which these children and their families live."]]> 2016-11-21 17:21:06 UTC https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139160826 mmoberaitis18 https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139161124 In 2002, the Serbian government started working to individualize the disability of each disabled child in an institution and work to get the child in a specialized care.]]> 2016-11-21 17:22:18 UTC https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139161124 mmoberaitis18 https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139161531 By 2006, 19 institutions were being fixed and specialized for this purpose. ]]> 2016-11-21 17:23:45 UTC https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139161531 mmoberaitis18 https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139162003 " The next steps include transfering certain number of children from institutions into a less restrictive environment in the nearest future, developing services contingent upon actual needs in municipalities where residential institutions are located and creating efficient gate-keeping mechanism to prevent future placement of children in institutions"]]> 2016-11-21 17:25:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139162003 mmoberaitis18 https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139162200 Other practices that damage the mother-child relationship include separating the mother and child shortly after birth, and reuniting them only to breast feed. ]]> 2016-11-21 17:25:56 UTC https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139162200 mmoberaitis18 https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139162923  "[W]hen picked up by a visitor [Sasha] becomes calm and cuddly...[w]hen offered a teddy bear,...he cuddles it with a firm grip, afraid it might be taken away from him at any time."]]> 2016-11-21 17:28:20 UTC https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139162923 mmoberaitis18 https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139163346 "Sasha’s behaviour is proof that he has not given up on his social environment while most of the other children in the room just lay motionless and stare into space without showing any emotion or emitting a sound."]]> 2016-11-21 17:29:47 UTC https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139163346 mmoberaitis18 https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139163489 "Sasha’s resilience is rarely seen in institutionalised young children" The reason for Sash's resilience is unknown.]]> 2016-11-21 17:30:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139163489 mmoberaitis18 https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139163617 It takes as little as 3 months of living in an institution to resort a child to complete silence and emotional restraint. ]]> 2016-11-21 17:30:48 UTC https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139163617 mmoberaitis18 https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139163938 "... children are placed unnecessarily and for too long in institutions"]]> 2016-11-21 17:32:07 UTC https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139163938 mmoberaitis18 https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139164081  "A third of the children [in the Belgrade institutions] are considered to have disabilities." Little to none of these children are handled accordingly]]> 2016-11-21 17:32:43 UTC https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139164081 mmoberaitis18 https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139164535 In social groups, disabled children are taken care of in a clinic, but little specialization for their disability, which stunts their development. ]]> 2016-11-21 17:34:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139164535 mmoberaitis18 https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139165072 " Growth failure and developmental delay is a consequence of over crowded conditions with little social stimulation and no variety of experience."]]> 2016-11-21 17:36:11 UTC https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139165072 mmoberaitis18 https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139165298 "National Plan of Action for Children...[works to] protect... the rights of children deprived of parental care by gradually dismantling the institutional forms of protection currently in place and encouraging family based care."]]> 2016-11-21 17:37:02 UTC https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139165298 mmoberaitis18 https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139165322 "Studies claim that the neglect and damage caused by deprivation in early childhood are akin to violent abuse"]]> 2016-11-21 17:37:08 UTC https://padlet.com/mmoberaitis18/n4vcdht7gs58/wish/139165322