CASP Celebrates 38 Happy Years!

Dear friends, we are celebrating 38 happy years offering our services to people with different abilities and their families.  It's a party day and we would like to celebrate with you!

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We celebrate your support and friendship!

*Any donation made by credit card (through PayPal) will be collected by CASI (Center Ann Sullivan International, Inc.), a nonprofit 501 (c) organization in the United States of America that supports Centro Ann Sullivan del Peru (CASP). As such, any donation that is made in the USA is tax deductible in that country.

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A Call for Emergency - CASP / Peru

You have likely heard that Peru is experiencing a national natural disaster with severe flooding due to heavy rains. While some countries are prepared for heavy rains, many parts of Peru do not have the infrastructure to handle the amount of rain they have received. 117 bridges have collapsed, rivers are flooding into towns and villages and entire communities who have built makeshift homes on mountainsides are collapsing, damaging more than 115,000 homes.

CASP staff and families are among those affected by this disaster. Schools have been cancelled across the country due to dangerous transportation conditions and, in some cases, people simply cannot leave their immediate community from roads and bridges being washed out. Additionally, the tent on the 3rd floor of the center, that protects our classrooms from being damaged by rain, needs to be replaced.

We are writing to you in the hope that you will support CASP and the families affected by this disaster. Some families will no longer be able to pay tuition for their child to continue their education at CASP in order to care for their family's immediate needs as a result of the disaster. Your support could be the difference that they need.

You can donate to CASI directly, a foundation that supports centers such as CASP in South America.
CLICK HERE TO DONATE

News Story Coverage - Thousands Left Homeless

Video Clip - Peruvian Natural Disaster

"Brought Me To Tears"

"Brought me to tears" was the comment made by Dr. Dick Malott, one of the founders of the Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI), in response to Dr. Liliana Mayo’s recent keynote address about the CASP model at the ABAI Conference in Puerto Rico. Dr. Dick Malott, who for over 40 years has used the principles of behavior said that he has attended all 11 of International Autism Conferences and that this was the first presentation and presenter who got a standing ovation.

Dr. Mayo talked about the work of CASP in a presentation titled, How People With Autism In Peru Are Economically And Meaningfully Supporting Their Families. She spoke about the partnership that CASP has with parents, teaching them to become the best teacher/parents they can for their children with different abilities.

CONGRATULATIONS Dr. Liliana Mayo for making such an impact!

CASP: From the Garage to Influencing the World

Since its inception, in the garage of Dr. Mayo’s home, the success of CASP with its students and for its families has been recognized around the world. As a result, CASP and Dr. Liliana Mayo have received numerous prestigious awards and has been asked to present at many international conferences.

A unique outcome of the successful CASP approach is the implementation of the CASP model in other countries. CASP is truly helping create opportunities for people with different abilities to become independent, productive and happy around the world!
Countries with Centers Influenced by the CASP Model:

Argentina
Brazil
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Nigeria
Panama
Spain

The Power of 2

For 37 years CASP has believed in the Power of 2. Believed that when you combine the expertise of dedicated professionals with the love and hope that parents have for their children, amazing and very powerful things happen. Children with different abilities become independent, productive and happy people.

The Power of 2 stresses the power and importance of this dynamic partnership and has been the key to the success for CASP. This partnership between CASP professionals and CASP families has now resulted in one of the largest family school of families known in the world.

As we welcome 2017, we want to thank YOU for being a friend to CASP and believing in our work. It is with your belief and support that we can continue to offer hope, to change lives, to meet the needs of families of children with different abilities in Peru and all over the world.

Bank of the Nation receives award for contributing to the education of people with different abilities

The Ann Sullivan Center of Peru (CASP) awarded a recognition to the Agency of the Bank of the Nation, located in the Pueblo Libre district, for contributing to the civic education of our students. As a result the students of CASP received training on the adequate use of automatic registers and clerk operations, the same training done on October 29, November 5 and November 19 of this year.

Our students learned how to form lines at the banking agency and wait their turn. They also learned how to withdraw cash from the automatic teller machine and how to make deposits at the window. Liliana Mayo, Director of CASP, awarded the special distinction to officers of the bank, represented by Pueblo Libre Agency Administrator Lida Campañay, in recognition of their contribution to the education and social development of our students.  The recognition was given during the 2016 graduation ceremony of the School of Families in the CASP auditorium.

Students of the Ann Sullivan Center attend the USIL

Students of the Ann Sullivan Center (CASP) will be able to enter the labor market thanks to the Employment Network program administered by the Cisco business and the San Ignacio de Loyola University (USIL).

As a result of this, thirteen students from CASP took classes over a period of three months (twelve Sundays) covering computer and systems management as part of the pilot project that Cisco and USIL also launched, in favor of women of scarce resources.

By forming part of the first Employment Network, which is an initiative led by the Computer Engineering and Systems Program of USIL, our students are being trained in the field of Information and Communications Technologies in order to be included in the labor market, which contributes to the improvement of their quality of life and the narrowing of the digital gap.

“The Employment Network program constitutes a digital connection between people with different abilities and employing businesses, educational institutions, government entities and Cisco Networking Academy. By being registered in our network, they could be interviewed and considered for work opportunities,” said Ana María Ramírez, director of the Computer Engineering and Systems Program at USIL.

Founder and Executive Director of CASP, Liliana Mayo, PhD., said, “This new alliance had a new initiative: that of including people with different abilities for the first time. The students in information technology are also helping the students from CASP, which prepares them for future employment in information technology, which is one of the main objectives.”

Luis Alonso Rodríguez, a student of the program, also highlighted the importance of his participation in the project: “Here I can learn technology, the web and the internet.”

The CASP students assigned to participate in USIL’s and Cisco’s project are between the ages of 15 and 45 and come from the School Inclusion and Regular Classrooms programs. Their diagnoses are autism, mild retardation, Down syndrome and cognitive deficit.

It is worth noting that in Peru two out of every three people when different abilities lack some degree of education or only received an elementary education in many cases. Only one out of every ten has reached higher education. And only two out of every ten find employment.

For 36 years, Dr. Judith M. LeBlanc has been dedicated to support and help create the vision of CASP

Dr. Mayo, after reading all she could on behavior analysis and facing a growing school and the necessity to improve, felt compelled to look overseas for guidance from the professionals whose books she had read. Her goal: to convince someone who had expertise in the field to come to Peru, understand their objectives, and advise them about how to proceed. Her search lead her to the University of Kansas’ (KU) Dr. Judith M. LeBlanc.

Dr. LeBlanc agreed to travel to Peru. She was impressed by what she saw during her first visit in 1981 and saw an opportunity to test her beliefs about how people learn. So began a long, productive partnership between Dr. Mayo and Dr. LeBlanc and between KU and CASP. Dr. LeBlanc would return to Peru for the next 35 years and help CASP develop a unique curriculum focused on functional and natural skills designed to prepare students for inclusion into life. With the mantra of “independent, productive, and happy", she has influenced the staff CASP to focus on students’ and their parents abilities rather than disabilities.

“One of the things we saw in Judy was the humbleness to teach us; she respected our culture,” Dr. Mayo says. From the beginning, Dr. LeBlanc encouraged the CASP team to think critically, to treat students as they would want to be treated, and to have a long-term vision. The relationship between CASP and Dr. LeBlanc has made CASP what it is today and is a true testament to the power of collaboration and the beauty that emerges when you give of yourself to others.