Digital Approaches at SEN Education Erasmus Project

Project Title

Digital Approaches at SEN Education

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Disabilities – special needs; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

In the European Union, one out of every six people – about 80 million – has a mild and severe disability.
It is impossible to achieve the universal primary education goal without including the children with disabilities. 98 percent of children with disabilities lack formal education (UNICEF).
For an effective education system that ensures the inclusion of children with disabilities in the school system, an environment without barriers in schools should be created. This is done by training relevant teachers, creating curricula and providing the necessary support to children with disabilities.

With the SENDATA project, it is planned to ensure that individuals with disabilities have access to information and communication technologies and systems, especially under the ‘Accessibility’ theme.
Technology-supported educational environments provide an interest and motivational learning experience in line with the characteristics of the learners. Assistive technologies support the vision, hearing, reading, writing, social and communication skills of individuals with special needs according to the type of disability and facilitate independent living skills. Assistive technologies, on the other hand, can affect students with special needs not only learning various skills, but also their self-confidence, their quality of life and, most importantly, their ability to live independently in society.

The fact that digital education infrastructure works for students who need special education are not very wide, special education students need more individual education support, and that requires structured / classified and implemented collaborations with knowledge transfers at the international level.

Among the technologies used especially for specially educated individuals, the tools with touch screen features that include visual and audio features should be used frequently for different types of disability, as they have many advantages. It helps to establish better connections with real life by individualizing the educational learning materials of the Assistive Technology tools, providing access to many applications, easy portability, making contact with the content in the virtual environment by touching, that is, with a more concrete form of communication, by providing physical and virtual interaction with concrete forms of communication. .

In our Strategic Partnership project, there are five Special Education Institutions and primary school with special education sub-classes. Over 500 students receive education in the partner schools and together with their parents, they form a target audience of 1500 people in total.

The SENDATA Project concentrates on Autism, Physical Impairment, Mental Deficiencies and Digital Applications to be used in assistive technologies to increase the individual development of children with different disadvantages. The contents of ‘Motor, Social and Emotional, Language, Cognitive, Self-care Areas’ and AR&VR for the development of children will be classified and guide videos will be prepared for the use of these applications in special education. The data to be created for students, teachers and families who need special education will be published as open access to all users at EU level via subtitles in 7 different languages.

The project is divided into 22-month Preparation, Training, Project activities, Dissemination, Evaluation, Guidance and Reporting stages. 6 mobilities are planned within the scope of the SENDATA ‘project.

Digital applications for different disadvantaged students (Autism / Mental / Physical Disability) will be shared by addressing a development area in each mobility. After mobilization, a minimum of 162 different applications will be published on the website.

Guidelines for target stakeholders will be created at the end of each mobility. In these bulletins, recent developments / articles across the EU will be compiled both in the digital applications applied and in the field of Autism, Physical and Mental Disabilities.

The impact of the project on target groups; It aims to increase the Digital Skill competencies of teachers to search and use Digital Applications in the areas of child development, and to provide accessibility in education by creating equality of opportunity in the education of individuals with disabilities through the achievements of mutual good practices at the international level. The SENDATA project will create awareness at the local, national and EU level in the field of Special Education

Project Website

http://www.sendataproject.com

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 134500 Eur

Project Coordinator

HUMA HATUN OZEL EGITIM ANAOKULU & Country: TR

Project Partners

• Rigas 2. speciala internatpamatskola
• Agrupamento de Escolas Lapiás
• Primary school Anton Skala
• Grădinița Specială
• Kedainiu specialioji mokykla