ABU DHABI: The former Vice President of Argentina, Gabriela Michetti, will once again travel to the UAE to participate in the World Rehabilitation Congress, which will be held for the first time in the Middle East from 23 to 25 September 2024 under the theme ‘Work and Employment’.

The event will take place in Abu Dhabi, under the patronage of H.H. Sheikh Khalid bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Chairman of the Board of Zayed Higher Organisation for People of Determination (ZHO), and in partnership with Rehabilitation International (RI), the International Social Security Association (ISSA) and the Abu Dhabi Convention and Exhibition Bureau under the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi.

Michetti said she was ‘happy to participate in the World Congress on Rehabilitation, focused on work and employment, two fundamental topics if we want to talk about greater inclusion in societies for people with disabilities’.

In her statements, which she made in a video recorded in the Argentinean capital, Buenos Aires, she sai
d that the event ‘will surely become a global platform for sharing good practices and advancing on these important human rights issues’.

ZHO announced the launch of an exclusive masterclass training programme with the Higher Institute for Psychomotor Therapy (ISRP) from France, which focuses on applying psychomotor therapy (PMT) for Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD).

This specialised training is tailored to healthcare professionals working within the rehabilitation sector, and specifically for those working with ASD patients. Psychomotor Therapy (PMT) is a rehabilitation therapy that originated from a French physical therapist, Giselle Soubiran, at the beginning of the 1950s in the Henri Roussel Sainte-Anne Children Psychiatry hospital in Paris. The training will be the first of two comprehensive sessions aimed at equipping healthcare professionals with an in-depth understanding of PMT and its specific application to ASD.

Source: Emirates News Agency