Language Education and Speech Therapy for People with Special Education Needs Erasmus Project

Project Title

Language Education and Speech Therapy for People with Special Education Needs

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 : Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development); Pedagogy and didactics; Disabilities – special needs

Project Summary

Social integration of people with disabilities is a major issue for the European society today. People with different diagnostics have special educational and therapeutic needs to improve their communication abilities. In order to ensure quality educational and therapeutic services to them it is necessary for these services to be implemented by specialists with a high level of professional training. Today we cannot speak about high standards of developing the professional skills without continuum formation, permanent up to date information on theoretical novelties and new, innovative strategies of practice. The international experience exchanges made within LET’S project represented a modality of gaining new knowledge and practical abilities regarding other strategies and educational approaches used in different places of Europe. LET’S project has contributed to development of the professional skills and competences for educators and experts from partner organisations which are working with children who have special education needs in the field of language education and speech therapy by facilitating the access of international experience changes, quality continuum training activities, open educational resources, modern instruments of work, alternative/innovative approaches. Increasing the quality of services provided by 4 partner institutions and their strategic institutional development by initiation and development of strategic international cooperation, transferring and re-evaluating the approaches, strategies, educational and therapeutic methods used, professional development of human resources, elaborating new educational resources and work instruments there were other project outcomes.The project included a well-balanced mixture of partners: 2 NGOs, 1 public authority, 1 special education school. All partner organisation provide/supervise educational and therapeutic services in the field on language education and therapy for people with special education needs. Together we represented varied views across a range of stakeholders and interests providing competent knowledge and experience in the field of language education and speech therapy for children with special needs, from different countries in Europe: Romania, Italy, Hungary and Greece. Each partner has organised a particular training and intellectual output depending of own better expertise and relevant experience. The participants was specialists in the field of language education and speech therapy of children with Special Education Needs (teachers, educators, trainers, experts involved in these kind of educational and therapeutic services). The project objectives have been achieved by implementing joint staff training activities in the field of language education and therapy for people with different kind of special needs, development of Open Educational Resources and quality ensuring for implementation of activities regarding project management, dissemination, exploitation and valorisation of the project results. The main results obtained were: developing the professional skills and competences of the educators and experts who work with people with Special Education Need and increasing the quality of educational and therapeutic services for children with Special Educational Needs. The open educational resources (LET’S OER) created during the project are free accessible on the project webpage (http://www.let-s.tk/p/outcomes.html). LET’S OER consist of a collections of free educational resources (worksheets, studies, pedagogical methods etc) for educators and speech therapists addressing educational and therapeutic needs of different kind of beneficiaries: children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD); children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD); children with Hearing Impaired; children with Mental Retardation. The expertise and experience from each partner organisation has been used in order to ensure transferability to the partner organisations and to the other stakeholders (Special Schools, Speech Therapy Centers, Scholar Inspectorates, specialized NGOs etc).The main impact for direct beneficiaries has been increasing of the professional skills and their competences in the field. This project offered them the great opportunity to extend their knowledge on this subject about language education and speech therapy at a European level and to gather experiences and exchange of good practices deriving from various European contexts. Most of the lessons that have been learned in the project could not have been learned at individual and/ or national level, the transnational activities being the ones that can bring relevant new approaches and solutions.The longer term benefits targets especially the indirect beneficiaries, people with special education needs, by increasing the quality of educational and therapeutic services provided to them.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 103050 Eur

Project Coordinator

ASOCIATIA SUNTEM DIFERITI & Country: RO

Project Partners

• Progetto Crescere Soc. Coop. Soc.
• Eastern Macedonia – Thrace Regional Directorate for Primary and Secondary Education
• Dr. Torok Bela Ovoda, Altalanos Iskola, Szakiskola, Keszsegfejleszto Iskola, Egyseges Gyogypedagogiai Modszertani Intezmeny es Kollegium