Inclusive Education

1. Inclusive Education Presentation to the Stammbach Foundation By Marc Schmidlin – Programme Coordinator Hannah Corps – Technical Advisor for Inclusive Education September 29th 2006

2. Reality for the world’s children • Extreme poverty • Harsh environment - physical, social, economic & political • Cultural beliefs and traditions about disability

3. Why ? • 115 million children worldwide excluded from education • 40 million of those are disabled • Only 2%- 10% disabled children worldwide attend school (UNESCO estimate) ...all children have a right to education

4. 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child 1990 World Declaration on Education For All, Jomtien 1994 World Conference on Special Needs Education (Access and Quality), Salamanca 2000 World Declaration on Education For All, Dakar 2000 Millennium Development Goal 2 Universal Primary Education by 2015 2006 UN Convention on Rights of Disabled people 2006 (Education Article 24) Global education context

5. Moving forward towards inclusive education… Separate education systems Children changing to fit the system An inclusive system

6. Inclusive Education - Key messages • IE is a process and goal towards Education For All… • IE is about changing the school systems… • IE is part of a broader goal towards an inclusive society…

7. Awareness raising to parents and community leaders Promote Self Advocacy groups for disabled and non disabled children Our activities with Communities

8. Making schools accessible Adapting teaching and learning resources Our activities with Schools

9. Training teachers in schools and colleges Supporting Ministries of Education to develop inclusive policies Our activities with Authorities

10. Learning from positive examples of Inclusive Education

11. Inclusive Education supported by theStammbach Foundation(2005 – 2006)Project“Promotion of access to education for children with disability in Nicaragua”

12. Results

13. 557 disabled children supported in 6 targeted special schools • 163 disabled children included in 24 targeted mainstream schools

14. Each school provided with accessibility assessment

15. 286 children identified for technical aids • 32 children provided with adapted furniture and/or assistive devices

16. 30 pedagogical counsellors and 14 pedagogical advisers trained and provide follow up to inclusive schools

17. 430 teachers trained in 4 modules on inclusive education

18. 30 schools, municipal and departmental MECD delegation provided with didactic and office materials and tools for child evaluations

19. 432 disabled children receive psycho-pedagogical evaluations • 114 disabled children benefit from curricular adaptations • 50 disabled children follow individual learning plans

20. Increased recognition of parents of non disabled children and social and public actors of the rights to education for ALL children

21. Summary of Achievementswith financial support fromStammbach Foundation • 1422 Disabled children included in 30 schools • 30 Accessibility assessments • 30 Schools receive evaluation materials and tools • 318 Individual technical aids • 44 Trained Educational Advisors • 430 Trained teachers

22. “I now have friends who play with me…” “My daughter’s life has changed completely…” “We welcome disabled children now because they have the same right to education as the others…” Brenda’s story… Brenda is 13 years old. She has a severe motor and visual impairment

23. Future Challenges • Implementation of policies and regulations for disabled children to access schools • Homogenisation of resource materials • Continuous training for parents

24. Objectives for 2007/8 Strengthening inclusive education in 30 schools : • Identification of disabled children out of school • Appropriate inclusion of disabled children in schools • Quality follow up of inclusive schools

25. 30 schools phase 1 20 new schools Geographical extension • Extend inclusive education to 20 new schools

26. Thank you Working together towards an Education for All!