The Day Treatment and Training for Adults, or DTTA La Española, is a fun place for learning, exercising, and growing as a person. DTTA provides members specialized training through the senses and helps them with understanding their environment. They are learning, remembering, and using that knowledge to grow in independence. They are practicing communication with words, gestures, and facial expressions through social interaction and staff modeling behavior like good manners.
Our members enjoy performing plays and showcasing their artwork. You can find them dancing for exercise and birthday parties, even relaxing outside on the lawn with a volunteer Tai Chi teacher. Outside DTTA’s walls, members adventure into the community, volunteering, eating, and traveling to new places.
DTTA Schedule
At DTTA La Española we have personal development activities on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. Wednesdays are café days, each week someone new picks somewhere they get to go for coffee.
Social activities are saved for Fridays. Work hard and play harder. Members play pool, soak up the sun at Patagonia Lake, or enjoy each other’s company doing fun things together. They look forward to their themed birthday parties. You can see some of our parties in the Special Events gallery of photos or our social media.
Our 4 main goals for our members are:
- To provide training and supervision for the member to maintain or increase their self help, socialization and adaptive skills.
- To maintain and/or develop positive relationships between members and their families.
- To provide members the opportunities to interact socially within the community and;
- To provide them access to available resources. Thus, DTTA provides its members the opportunity to participate in meaningful and challenging experiences in a successful manner.
Training (Recreation)
Our members choose from activities in or outside the program that they feel more comfortable with.
The members that are not physically able to volunteer or do not want to participate in volunteer activities have other opportunities. To still benefit their sensory issues, they may visit the Santa Fe Ranch to interact with animals out in nature.
During lunch time they are taught how to appropriately use silverware and use good manners.
During the afternoon they work on their individual goals and develop skills by playing video games, board games and computers.
