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Children and students with special educational needs- according to Bulgarian education system

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Kindergarten“Slaveykova Poliyana “-Sofia and Kindergarten “Sinchec”- Troyan

Children and students with special educational needs are children and students with

various disabilities and disorders, (sensory and physical disabilities, mental retardation, multiple

disabilities, speech-language disorders, learning difficulties), which can lead to difficulties in the

teaching process.

According to Public Education act children and pupils with special education needs can

be integrated in kindergartens, general and vocational schools or study in special kindergartens

and schools. The resource assistance to children and students with special educational needs

when enrolled in mainstream education is provided by resource teachers and experts –

psychologists, speech therapist and hearing and speech rehabilitators from the 28 resource

centers. The law guarantees that a resource teacher will assist up to 5 children with special

educational needs depending on their individual needs. Data provided by resource centers show

that in 2010/11 school year, there were 10 304 children and students with special educational

needs who receive integrated training in Bulgaria (1 206 in kindergartens and 9 098 in schools).

The legislation allows other forms of integrated education – formation of special classes in

regular vocational schools for children with hearing impairment, classes for children with

mental disabilities, who have graduated VIII grade. Students acquire first degree of qualification

in certain specialties and profession for one year, but have not received basic education level.

Special schools for children with special educational needs are currently 55. In Bulgaria, there

are 3 schools for children with hearing impairment, 2 schools for children with visual

impairment and 50 schools for children with mental disabilities, except these 55 special schools

there are 9 healing schools and 4 schools in hospitals.

There are also centers for in-service training for teachers working with younger children

deemed to be 'at risk', opened by the Ministry of Education and Science as specialized units, and

others operate within the structure of the universities, providing training courses. The Resource

Centers are a unit within the system of secondary education and pursues the state policy of the

Ministry of Education, Youth and Science of integration and inclusion of children and school

students with special educational needs in the schools of general education and kindergartens

on the territory of the republic Bulgaria.

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The main educational service offered by the Resource Centres is "resource assistance" of

children and school students having various disabilities.

The resource assistance is carried out by resource teachers who assist children and

school students within the limits of the general education environment and provide consultancy

to general education teachers how to adapt Individual Education Plan for each child with a

disability in accordance with his or her needs. The main concept of resource assistance is to

ensure that every child feels comfortable within the general education classroom irrespective of

any inherent difference. Resource teachers are specially trained for work with children with

special educational needs and have completed special teaching courses offered by teachers

colleges.

House of Plays Social Services Complex, Village of Dalbok Dol, Troyan Municipality

http://www.societyforall.com/en/index.htm

By courtesy of the director of the House of Plays Complex- Ralitsa Dimitrova and

Prof. Dr.Rumyana Kraleva, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Association "Society for All",

Manager of SRIC

The House of Plays Complex,

intended to provide social services to

children with physical disabilities and

sound mind, is located in the

picturesque mountain village of Dalbok

Dol, which has mild climate and is

immediate proximity to the town of

Troyan.

The purpose of the complex is to carry out various social services. Offered in it are:

- Daily rehabilitation of specialists in well equipped rehabilitation room in the building

of the former school;

- Daycare for disabled children of sound mind or children with disabilities placed in the

direction of Department “Child Protection”, with group programs in music, works with clay,

painting;

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- Continuous care /up to three months/ for children with specific needs;

- Art therapy “with sculptor and artist“pedagogues, for improving children concentration

and strengthening of the fine movements;

- Game therapy -individual and group;

- Sport occupations in tennis-court, sports gymnastic, with specialists from the

http://www.societyforall.com/craftsforyou/en/index.htm

The former pupils of the House of Plays are participants of the project “The crafts for

you” accomplished with Human resource development centre and financed by the European

Social Fund. The aim of the project is: children and young people with physical disabilities and

sound mind to acquire craft with which to ponder their future and to earn livelihoods.

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The social services complex, including three social facilities, offers wonderful conditions

for the kids and youngsters with disabilities. Under the management of craftsmen from the

Troyan municipality, the youngsters learn traditional trades and after the education they

undergo an exam in front of the National Chamber of Crafts.

The teachers are: Rositsa Zankova - pottery, Borislava Katsarova - artistic woodworking

and iconography and Hristina Georgieva - bakery and confectionery. The team of the "Society

for everyone" association and the team of the Complex for social services are considering the

new ideas and projects for the next year.

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Association "Society for All"

http://societyforall.infocom.bg , society_for_all@mail.bg

The main activities of the Association „Society for All” at the moment are

the development of complex supply of social services for disabled

children in the Village of Dalbok Dol, Troyan Municipality, consisting of

a center for social rehabilitation and integration, home for temporary

housing, computer center, a rehabilitation room and playground.

GAME HOUSE

http://edusoft.fmi.uni-sofia.bg/specialneeds/INDEX_EN.HTML

The “Game House” is a software package with educational games, specially designed for

children with cerebral palsy. Though, it is applicable to children with other disabilities. The

software has two main functions – introduction to computers, managing with mouse and

keyboard, and gaining school knowledge. The product is games based, because of the main

users’ specific physical and age characteristics. The whole action is inside the Game House,

where games are grouped by different areas. A different assisting hero is responsible for each

area. He has its’ own room and assistants – in charge of separate games.

Game House and her 4th

heroes

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Mr. Mouse- Games for manipulating the mouse are collected in this room.

These are the games, with which usually starts computer education of children,

because they include gaining skills for working with computer systems.

Mrs. Book- The games in this room are designed to train manipulating the

mouse and keyboard. The stress is upon managing the symbol keyboard block. The

main practical education tasks are finding and remembering the position of the

letter keys from the keyboard. A graphical appearance of the letters is also

presented and been learned, and meanwhile a connection between the letter and

its corresponding sound is established (a written sign to the heard sound

connection). Playing the games for entering a word with the keyboard and constructing a

sentence from a number of given words helps learning the structure of words and the correct

grammatical order of sentences. These games help accomplishing the phonemic gnosis,

abstract logical way of thinking, analyzing and synthesizing abilities. The games in the room

are "Words", "Letters", "Missing Letters" and "Sentences".

Mr. Abacus- The games in this room are designed to reveal managing the

number keyboard block. They improve the abstract-logical thinking, present the

graphical appearance and the names of 1 to 9 numbers to the user. The games

also develop the ability to count, form quantity concepts and idea for continuity

and order. They help users understand and learn concepts such as greater and

smaller. The games, included here, are "Numbers" and "Compare".

Mr. Pencil- The games in this room are designed to improve working with

the mouse and the keyboard. They teach how colors and their names should be

used. They also learn the users to work with a group of instruments for painting,

drawing and coloring. The games are "Colors" and "Paint".

The “Game house” software package is designed to work in two ways. You could start

each application on one's own inside Comenius Logo environment. The other way is to start the

package – thus Comenius Logo remains hidden for the user. The package resources are

copyright. The used resources are precisely selected by logopedist and psychologist and include

well known for children objects.

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Games for children with SEN

Games to develop fine motor skills

A. Color cottage

Materials: colored glass pebbles; cylindrical box with a lid with a slot.

Objective: To develop fine motor skills, introduction to colors.

Description: The pebbles are on the table. The child must put them in the box one by one,

thrusts them in the groove.

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2. Strung on rings; abacus

3. House of geometric shapes

Materials: Box with different openings, different shapes.

Objective: Introduction to geometry.

Description: The child have to put each geometric shape in the right opening.

4. Floret

Materials: Same circles of colored paper

Objective: Understand the circle

Description: The child arrange the circles so as to obtain a flower.

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5. Winnie

Materials: Parts of the body of the bear, wooden base.

Objective: To develop fine motor skills, introduction to colors.

Description: The child puts the Winnie’s parts to the appropriate places.

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