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Title: | Integration suitcase for children with special needs |
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Location: | Latvia |
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Name of organization: Association “Education Initiative centre” Contact information (address, phone, e-mail, and website) Rīgas street 216b, Jēkabpils, LV- 5202, Latvia Phone: (+371) 65235635 Email: info@iic.lv Website: www.iic.lv NGO |
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Description: | Aim: to facilitate integration of children with special needs into education system, providing necessary knowledge and skills for teachers to support cognitive development of children with special needs, by implementing Neubourg cognitive development theory and Norvegian practical experience, to support co-operation between Latvian and Norwegian teachers co-operation and promote mentoring work in education. |
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Innovativeness: 1. Great opportunity for teachers to get acquainted and use a new methodology for the support of cognitive development working with children with special needs; to teach also parents of children to support their child at home learning. |
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Effectiveness: At the end of project teachers and mentors in 15 schools of Latvia who has mastered M. Neubourg methodology, have included it into their classes and are working with 261 children with special needs and learning difficulties. It is foreseen that these schools will enrol new pupils with special needs in school year 2009/2010. |
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Satisfaction: Here are few quotations from evaluation forms after seminars and workshops: |
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Dissemination: In July 12 -14, 2010 an international conference on inclusive education “Education Approaches for Children and Youth with Special Education Needs” will take place in Riga. It is organised by Division of International Special Education and Services (DISES), Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) www.cec.sped.org , International Step by Step Association (ISSA), www.issa.nl and Education Initiative centre. |
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Exploitation: Long term co-operation has been developed with all project participants. |
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Search criteria: Education, inclusion, cognitive development according to M.Neubourg method, mentor, mentoring |