DOST EDUCATION and REHABILITATION CENTRE Kick-off-meeting INTECH

1. DOST EDUCATION and REHABILITATION CENTREKick-off-meeting INTECH Special DOST Education and Rehabilitation Centre Ankara 9-10 december 2010

3. Dost Special Education and Rehabilitation Centre Founded in 2000 private, non governmental educational institution. Dost Education provides education to disabled children, youth and adults and their parents personal assistants of the disabled persons and to staff support, information and help to families, disabled adults and people in need.

4. Our institution has 300 disabled learners • Mental retardation • Cerebral palsy • Learning disorders: Reading disorder Mathematics disorder Disorder of written expression • Down syndrome

5. Pervasive developmental disorders: Autistic disorder Rett’s disorder Childhood disintegrative disorder Asperger’s disorder • Attention Deficit and Disruptive Behaviour disorders • Language and Communication disorders • Conduct disorder

6. Dost has about 40 staff Dost has many experts • special education teachers • social service experts • childhood development and educationexperts • psychologist • physiotherapist

7. Our main activities are • training disabled persons • group education in many areas • many types of training courses in the center • vocational education • family seminars about disabled people • psychological counseling for students and parents • parents support groups • workshops • socializing activities • projects on disadvantaged groups

8. Psychological counselling for parents

9. Training disabled persons • special education • group education • physiotherapy • speech terapy • ludotherapy • music terapy • psychological counselling • vocational education • socializing activities • handicraft lesson

10. Special education: one teacher for one student; working according to a personal special plan for the student

11. Group education

12. Our students learn to make galosh (overshoe) in vocational education

13. Ebru paintings made during vocational education

14. Our students learn to make wood printing

15. Leather outputs and wood printing made by our students during vocational education

16. Webelieve in that in specialeducationteacher-parentcollaboration is veryimportantforfurthersuccess. • Weareinteresting in usingthe ICT (Informationcommunicationtechnology) andvisualtraditionaland modern tools in ourprojects.

17. Special DOST Education and Rehabilitation Centre Applied EU Projects about Disability

18. New Skills For Special Trainers On Re-Integration Of Disabled People(2004) • Leonardo Da Vinci- Exchange project • 12 trainers (teachers) followed a training about disability education in Greece and Poland • Our teachers applied this information in our school

19. IT&C A Gateway to Future For Disabled People (2005-2007) • Socrates Grundtvig 2 project • The aim was to enchance ICT familiarity among disabled people • Project applied short-term courses for trainers and disabled people

20. Enhancing Employment Opportunities for Pupils with S.E.N (2005-2008) • Socrates Comenius 1.2 project • Cooperation with Hungary, England • We applied vocational courses for pupils with S.E.N

21. 3L Net European Network of Life Long Learning Clubs (2006-2008) • Socrates-Gruntvig 1 programme, from Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) • We organized 4 LLL Clubs (2 for women, 2 for youth) from disadvantageus people. • We gave them courses about: new employment opportunities, basic daily life knowledge, self sufficiency consciousness, productive mentality, healthy social relations, social opportunities, IT courses.

22. Special DOST Education and Rehabilitation Centre T H A N K Y O U VE R Y M U C H !