Elementary School and Kindergarten for Hearing Impaired Children

1. Elementary School and Kindergarten for Hearing Impaired Children • Mohylová 90, 312 09, Pilsen, Czech Republic 1

2. The institution includes these parts: • Kindergarten for the hearing impaired • Capacity: 20 children in the age of 3-6yr. in three classes.

3. The institution includes these parts: • Elementary school for the hearing impaired • Capacity: 132 pupils in the age of 6-16yr. • Divided into two degrees • 1st – class 1-6 • 2nd – class 7-10 3

4. The institution includes these parts: • School club • Capacity: 40 children. • Opened every workday until 4pm (then children are picked-up by parents) • Leisure activities 4

5. The institution includes these parts: • Special – pedagogic centre • two social workers 5

6. The institution includes these parts: • School canteen • 200 meals every lunch cooked 6

7. The institution offers: • Kindergarten and elementary school for the hearing impaired (totally deaf as well as hard-of-hearing and conditions associated with it – disorders of speech, learning, behavior) • Individual approach to every child • Education according to the special education plan: “Neslyším, ale rozumím” (“I can`t hear, but I understand”) – created for the hearing impaired children • Maximal numbers of children in one class: • 6 – children with the total hear lost • 14 – for the others 7

8. Institution helps children: • With hearing impairment • With speech defects • Who need individual working pace • With learning difficulties • We help parents to understand better the world of their children • We help to diagnose these children in ordinary elementary schools. 8

9. Hostel for children and leisure activities • For children, who live far away • Possibility to move to the hostel every week (it is closed at weekends) • All-day care • Hobby groups, PC classroom, large playground, gym 9

10. Special Pedagogic Centre • Offers “early care” for the families with the hearing impaired children under the age of 3 • Helps with the child development – speech and hearing perception with hearing aid • Offers individual logopaedic care • Arranges medical and psychological examinations • Helps with social/legal problems • Sign language education • Contacts with other families with the hearing impaired child • Helps the hearing impaired children, who are included in ordinary schools 10

11. List of our employees • 3 teachers in the kindergarten • 20 teachers in the elementary school • 2 social workers in the Special – pedagogics centre • 1 social worker in the school • 3 assistants • 5 childminders in the hostel • 4 administration workers, 6 maintenance workers, 4 kitchen workers 11

12. The Cochlear implantation in the Czech Republic • Use of three types from three world`s manufacturers • Cochlear, Medel, Advanced Bionics • Currently two implantation centres • Prague, Brno • Approximately 1200 surgeries • some of them abroad • 75% of patients - children 12

13. Thank for your attention! • Mgr. Jiri Pouska • Headmaster • Phone: 00420 378 60 99 39 • Email: reditel@sluchpost-plzen.cz • www.sluchpost-plzen.cz 13

14. tahák Dear ladies and gentlemen, Let me introduce our institution. We have arrived to this friendly meeting from the city of Pilsen, which is the fourth largest city in the Czech Republic. It has population of about 160.000 citizens. It takes approximately one hour to reach it from Prague`s international airport by car. It lies exactly on the junction of four rivers. It is known by sport, brewery and tall cathedral. Pilsen is one of the 13 cities, where schools for hearing impaired are situated. Around 7600 hearing impaired people, who use hearing aids or cochlear implants or sing language, live in our country. Approximately 650 children attend kindergartens and elementary schools for hearing impaired. One can assume that next 1500 children with hearing problems are educated in ordinary school without sign language, but exact number is missing. 14