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THE TEAM OF EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS IN OLSZTYN. Wanda Agnieszka Jabłońska Iwona Olszewska. „ Implementation a wide-ranging and multiple help of children and young people with coupled disabilities, autism and Asperger syndrome.”. OUR MOTTO:.
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THE TEAM OF EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS IN OLSZTYN Wanda Agnieszka Jabłońska Iwona Olszewska
„ Implementation a wide-ranging • and multiple help of children and • young people with coupled • disabilities, autism and Asperger • syndrome.” OUR MOTTO: Zespół Placówek Edukacyjnych w Olsztynie
HISTORICAL OVERVIEW: • 1997 year – The Team of Preschool • Institutions No. 1 in Olsztyn (T.P.I.): • - TheSpecialKindergarten No. 5 • - The Public Kindergarten No. 34; • 1998 year - branch for childrenwith • autisminThe Team of Preschool • Institutions No. 1 in Olsztyn; • 2000 year – establishingTheSocialPrimarySchool for ChildrenwithAutisminThe Team of PreschoolInstitutions
THREE EXISTING ASSOCIATIONS: Twoassociations of parents: Warmia and Mazury Association for ChildrenwithPhysicalDisability and CoupledDisabilityin Olsztyn; Association of Help for AutisticPeople and Peoplewithsimilardisordersin Development in Olsztyn; One association of teachers and workers of T.P.I. : Association of Support of Childrens’ Development in Olsztyn
2002 year – THE TEAM OF EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS – the first public institutionin Poland whichis run by parents and teachers. Theheadmaster: Mrs Agnieszka Wanda Jabłońska
AT PRESENT: • The Public KindergartenwithIntegrationClasses No. 25 • TheSpecialKindergarten No. 11 • TheSpecialPrimarySchool No. 4 for ChildrenwithAutism and CoupledDisorders • TheGrammarSchool No. 1 for ChildrenwithAutism, CoupledDisorders and MentalRetardationintheModerate and SevereDegree (2007 year)
FUTURE PLANS: • The Work Training School ( september 2011)
Help from an earlyage: • CONSULTATION SECTION: • Consulting and Diagnostic Point for childrenwithdisabilities and theirfamiliesfrom Warmia and Mazury; • Organisingtherapeuticactivities for children and youngpeoplewithdisabilities; • Meetingswithpsychologists and otherspecialistsboth for children and parents; • Help and support for families;
THE SPECIAL AND INTEGRATION KINDERGARTEN • Childrenattendtheclasses and realisethepreschooleducationalissues; • Childrenpractiseactivities: • Speech therapy (using AAC – augmentive and alternativecommunication), • Rehabilitation, • Otherkinds of therapy (e.g. individualrehabilitation, BioFeedbacktherapy, Tomatistherapy etc.) • Therearegroups for childrenwithautismintheSpecialKindergarten. Thespecialauthoring program called ,,Sunflower’’ isled for thesegroups.
Additionaly, childrencanusethefollowingforms of assistance and activitiesinthekindergarten: • Psychological and pedagogical care; • Rhytmics; • Hydrotherapy; • Logo-music-tales-therapy; • Dogotherapy;
ThePrimarySchool No. 4 for ChildrenwithAutism and CoupledDisabilitiesand TheGrammarSchool No. 1 for ChildrenwithAutism, CoupledDisorders and MentalRetardationintheModerate and SevereDegree : • Thecombination of group classeswithindividuallessonswhichsupportindividual development of a student. • Studentscan benefit fromindividuallessons: • Speech therapy; • Rehabilitation; • Tomatistherapy, • Sensory integrationtherapy, • Biofeedbacktherapy • Otherclasses, e. g. alternativecommunicationclasses.
We alsohave program: ,,Rehabilitation of multidisabledchildren and youth’’. Association of Support of Childrens’ Development providesvariousmultidisciplinaryactivities: • Sensory IntegrationTherapy; • Alternative and AugmentativeCommunication (AAC); • Computer Classes ; • Rehabilitation ; • Educationaltherapy for childrenwithdisabilities of hearing; • Dogotherapy; • Educationaltherapy for childrenwithdisabilities of sight; • Hydrotherapy; • SocialSkillsTraining (mainly for childrenwithAutism and AspergerSyndrome) ; • Speech therapy.
Cooperationwithparents: • Dailyconversationsaboutcurrentissues; • Meetingswithparents ; • Meetingswithparents and allspecialistsworkingwiththeirchild; • Support Group for parents; • School for parents; • ,,Saturdays for parents’’; • „Afternooncare for a child” • Psychologicalmeetings for mothers- project „Mums-thewaytowardstheharmony”;
Multidiscipline: • Teachers of particularsubjectsinPrimarySchool and GrammarSchool; • Kindergartenteachers (includingspecialeducators) ; • SpecialEducators; • Speech Therapists; • Therapists for childrenwithdisabilities of hearing • and sight; • Rehabilitationspecialists; • Psychologists ; • Sensory IntegrationTherapists; • TomatisTherapists; • Asistants for a disabled person;
SUMMARY: • Multidisciplinarysupport to children and adolescentswithautism and anotherdisabilities; • Continuation of therapy and education of thechildwithautism and anotherdisabilitiesatdifferentstages of development; • Consistency and extendingtherapy; • Familysupport;