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Mobility of Educational Services for Adolescents with Dyslexia
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016 PROJECT  FINISHED 

The project will improve the mobility and availability of educational services for adolescents with dyslexia and other specific learning disabilities (SLD) in general education. The project plans to work from school, social and government level to remedy the break in the educational services - remediation and accommodation including ICT - after grades 1- 4 in which services needed by those with learning disabilities does not continue to junior high school and secondary education. This will improve the opportunities available in further education by assuring that as a student with dyslexia is in education, he/she gets the additional assistance he/she needs. In some countries helping students with dyslexia and other specific learning difficulties is concentrated only in special education classes or schools. There is no mobility of individualized educational services from one stage of education to the next one - the service often is tied to an institution but does not follow the individual student and it not accordingly modified as the student moves on in education. This is a very drastic problem in secondary education, e.g., in Latvia there is not a single student with dyslexia in general secondary education schools who receives any special education services. In Czech Republic there are only 2% of students with SLDs in the secondary education. This is a clear discrimination of students with SLDs. In some countries legislation and thus also educational services are fragmented - services are different in different stages of education and also different in testing situations and everyday learning process. All these legal and practice inconsistencies seriously damage ability of students with dyslexia to fully utilize their academic potential that damages their quality of education and later employability. In many countries there is no provision and thus practice of use of ICT and assisstive technologies. The project will undertake an analysis of the situation in partner countries to create a training for teachers (plus a related handbook), provide that training in a pilot situation and which will be shared in significant dissemination activities. Finally, the project will use a stakeholder analysis to create a prioritized list of legislative and regulatory changes needed, then will create new text for those changes and advocate for those changes to be inserted in the respective legislation or regulation. A very important feature of the project is helping adolescents with dyslexia to develop self advocacy skills via participation in the project. This project takes a holistic approach to assisting adolescents with dyslexia via: training teachers, making a set of training materials and also changing the legislative framework to ease mobility for adolescents with dyslexia.
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