Hidden Stars
Start date: Sep 1, 2014,
End date: Aug 31, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
Dyslexia is a specific learning difficulty in the development of reading and writing that affects 10% of the population. If dyslexic individuals are not recognized and assisted in their early age, they most probably face with important difficulties in basic learning necessary for continuing their studies. This likely to cause antisocial and aggressive attitudes and are being at risk of school dropout. The project led by two partners the partnership of is mainly aimed to reduce the social disadvantages of dyslexic children and maximize the social adaptation of children facing this problem into the society. With this project we aim to ensure smooth transition between the early years of education to next phase of school education for dyslexic students and they have the opportunity to reach their potential in their future life . The solution for dyslexia problem can be achieved through supporting families, teachers and dyslexics with a comprehensive approach.
In the project it will be developed a checklist for students to identify students at risk of dyslexia, Individual Support Plan(ISP) that provides details of the child and their needs. Teachers and parents will be informed about the reasons, symptoms of dyslexia and methodological approach to a dyslexic student through the provided parents' and teachers' guides in the project. The project aims to provide an informative conference for parents and teachers to make them aware of the dyslexia and to support, and to provide guidance and resources. In the project we will plan to make an educational module which contains Basic Academic Skills, Basic Social Skills, Basic Psychomotor Skills and Family and teacher support system. We aim that this module will be a reference guide in the education of dyslexic children and it is applicable on all over the world. In this respect, the project will complete the missing points in this area as creating a training module prepared in holistic manner. The published book of the module in English, in Turkish and in Romanian languages will be our intellectual output and this output will be disseminated thorough organizing a seminar for 100 teachers in each countries. Moreover the teachers will implement the created modules on 10 selected dyslexic students and their families.
We will present our deliverables and outputs to the free access for the public through; the EU Dissemination Platform,European Shared Treasures System,project website,information sessions and seminars, written material such as reports, articles in specialised press, local newsletters, and press releases, audiovisual media and products such as radio, YouTube, social media(facebook group of the project), project logo, existing contacts and networks.
Isparta İl Milli Eğitim Müdürlüğü from Isparta Turkey and The School Inspectorate of Iasi county from Romania are the countries involved in this partnership, both of them are interested to learn more about this issue, available to share and learn by their own experiences. For two years 24 teachers, and staff from each partner regions periodically will have transnational meetings, defining objectives, planning in detail activities, evaluating the intermediate and final results. We believe that we need to build bridges between different kind of regional authorities, schools and health services to exchange good practices relevant to project, we should make teachers and parents aware of the problem and we must activate individual educational plans so that child can learn minimizing the stress caused by dyslexia. Moreover, the project will allow all partners to recognize intercultural
differences, understand how others behave and learn history of each country by participating in local events and
taking part in the educational activities.