Association “ Corporation of united citizens’ actions – DUGA” Bosnia and Herzegovina

1. Association“Corporation of united citizens’ actions – DUGA” Bosnia and Herzegovina

2. Association “Duga” sets in motion, directsandmonitorsthe development of democratic society through: • promotion of children’s right to education in an environment focusing on a child, • advancement of expert competencies of teaching, health, and social protection professionals, as well as civil society representatives.

3. The association practices the following activities: I Activities aimed at improvement of educational status of children with barriers to learning II Training of teaching professionals in the area of inclusive education III Participation in on-going reforms regarding pre-school and primary school education

4. I Activities aimed at improvement of educational status of children with barriers to learning Prevention: • Psychological counselling, • Special Pedagogue work, • Stress and Anxiety Prevention Program.

5. Support: • Psychological counseling • Creative Family Workshops • Hipotherapy • Development of individual educational programs in schools • Advisory for parents, carers and teaching professionals

6. Treatment: • Special Pedagogue treatment • Speech therapy • Psychological therapy

7. II Educational programs for pre-school carers, teaching professionals, school menagments, health and social protection workers, and local governement representatives regarding inclusive education.

8. III Participation in on-going reforms regarding pre-school and primary school education • Advocacy aimed at fulfillment of children’s right to quality education

9. Characteristics of children benefitting from Association’s activities Number of beneficiaries in year 2007: • 184 children (75 new beneficiaries) • 62 parents • 30 primary schools

10. Implemented projects

11. Psychosocial support to adolescents of Canton Sarajevo1994 - 1999MDM - Duga Beneficiaries:adolescents parents On average400 beneficiaries a year Individual counseling and treatment provided by GP, child psychiatrist, child psychologist and special pedagogue Group work facilitated by psycho-pedagogues/psychologist/psychiatrist/social worker and associates (photographer, journalist and radio presenter)

12. Institutional Capacity Buiding of Parent’s Associations of Children With Special Needs in BHyear 2002. • Beneficiaries: 4 parents’ associations in Maglaj, Pale, Goraždeand Tuzla. Project activities: • Workshops for associations’ project development • Provision of grants for structure development and organisational support • Evaluation meetings • Development of Special Olympics programs

13. Psychosocial Support to Children and Adolescents of Canton Sarajevo1999 - 2005Duga Beneficiaries:children and youth parents On average300 beneficiaries a year Individual counseling and treatment provided by GP, child psychiatrist, child psychologist, special pedagogue and speech therapist Group work facilitated by psycho-pedagogues/psychologist/psychiatrist/social worker and associates (photographer, journalist and radio presenter)

14. Support to children with special needs in mainstream schools in Canton Sarajevo2005 – to presentDuga • Beneficiaries:children parents/carers educators/teachers

15. Schooling Adjusted to Children with Special Needsin mainstream primary schoolsin BHSeptember 2000 – June 2002 Project was implemented in 16 primary schools: • 51 classroom • 51 teacher • 16 pedagogues When enrolled to II class:

16. Learning difficulties Delayed psychomotor development Underdeveloped and impaired speech Mental retardation Emotional and social immaturity Educational neglect Underdeveloped visual and auditory reception Autistic spectrum disorder Visual impairment Epilepsy Chronic diseases 1772 pupils were enrolled to I grade. 195 (11%) of these pupils had some special educational needs. Pupils with special needs had the following difficulties:

17. Elaboration of ModulesandEducation of Primary School Teachers in Inclusive EducationMay – August 2005 I Development of the Initial Program of Education The program consists of 4 modules, and has an aim of professional upgrade of expert competencies of teachers working with children with special needs. Special Pedagogues, Pedagogues and a trainer participated in the elaboration. II Education of teachers from 13 primary schools of Canton Sarajevo and 10 primary schools of Srpska Republic Beneficiaries: 23 primary school teachers from Canton Sarajevo 22 primary school teachers from Srpska Republic The participants received attendance confirmation at finalisation of the training

18. Protection of children’s right to education and non-discriminatory approach to children with special needs2005 - 2006 • Locations: Fojnica, Bugojno, Cazin, Široki Brijeg, Šamac and Višegrad • Participants: 147 primary school teachers 83 parents 72 local community representatives Main project activities:

19. I Three-day initial program of education for primary school teachers in inclusive education Proposed education consisted of 4 modules: • Introduction to Inclusive Education • Functional Approach to Curriculum Planning and Pupil Assessment • Behavioural and Social Skills – Disturbing and Challenging Behaviour within the Context of Inclusive Approach to Education • Instructional Strategies – Developing an Individual Education Plan, Effective Instructional Strategies for the Classroom

20. II One-day workshop for parents in inclusive educationIII One-day workshop for Jednodnevna radionica za predstavnike local community representatives in inclusive educationParticipants – representatives of:health institutions, social protection centers, pre-school institutions, primary schools and NGOs.

21. Citizen governance of public primary schools in favour of children rights protectionyear 2007 • project aim: Encouragement of active participation of public primary school bodies in implementation of the Law on Primary and Secondary Education in Canton Sarajevo, thus ensuring the protection of children right to adequate education. • beneficiaries from 8 primary schools in Canton Sarajevo: school bodies workshops (school boards, teacher/parents/pupils councils: 512 participants round tables: 170 participants

22. One-day and two-day seminars for primary school teachersDec 2007. andJan 2008. • location: Sarajevo and Zenica Themes: • opservation, • initial assessment, • development of individual adjusted curriculum, • follow-up, • evaluation.

23. Inclusive educationyear2008. Project aim is to contribute to the improvement of teaching practices in inclusive education in BiH. Project objective is to support education authorities in fulfilment of their obligations in relation to inclusive education. Main project activities: • training of trainers for 26 local trainers in initial inclusive educationprogram in order to increase possibility for professional upgrade of teaching professionals (Sarajevo, Mostar, Tuzla, Banja Luka i Zenica). • development of advanced inclusive education program in order to continuously raise the competencies of teaching professionals.

24. Research

25. Children with Special Needs in Bosnia and Hercegovina2003-2004 • Mapping, • Attitudes assessment regarding inclusive education: teaching professionals, pre-school educators, pedagogues and parents on the random sample of 30% of pre-school and primary school institutions in BH

26. DIFFICULTY: • Intellectual impairments • Disturbances in speech and language • Hearing impairments • Vision impairments • Chronic diseases and bodily impairments • Combined difficulties • Behaviour problems • Neglected children • Abused children • Self-harm and suicidal tendencies • Children with PTSD • Returnees • Children from minority groups • Children from incomplete families • Talented • Gifted

27. Atitude assessment of school staffshowed that: • 10% of participants gave their full support to inclusive education • 78% of questioned persons had positive attitudes when basic prerequisites were fulfilled • 12% of participants did not support inclusive education Atitude assessment of parentsshowed that: • positive attitudes were present in 86% of parents • negative attitudes were present in 6% of participants • neutral answers were provided by 8% of parents

28. Inclusive Education Feasibility Assessment in Birač AreaDec 2004 – April 2005 • Aim:collection and interpretation of the main data about children and youth with special needs – their number, nature and extent of their special needs, educational status, the need and possibility for change, as well as direction of such change. Assessment of organisational and technical capacities of relevant organisations and institutions was performed.

29. Cooperation of NGOs and mainstream primary schools regarding inclusive education • Cooperation of Association “Duga” and primary schools Kovačićiand 9 May The paper was presented at XIII International Congress of Comparative Pedagogy, Sarajevo 2007.god.

30. Publishing

31. Translation of “What’s Wrong with Timmy” author Maria Shiveryear 2002 • The book was translated and printed in 150 sets in Bosnian, Croatian and Srbian language • Distribution of the books in primary schools

32. Manualsyear 2001 Preparation, printing and distribution: • School based project for children with disabilities in BiH – Teacher’s Manual • Manual for Inclusive Classroom year 2006 Preparation, printing and distribution: • Manual for Inclusive Education

33. Stress and Anxiety Prevention in Children Programyear 2002 Translation and printing of: • facilitator’s manual; • 10 sets of books for children

34. Campaigns

35. Child Tailored Schoolsyear 2002 Awareness rising of the importance of inclusive education and children’s rights Activities: • Production and broadcasting of 4 TV telops • Performance in TV programson “Perspectives of education in BH – inclusive education for children with special needs” • Printing and distribution of 6600 copies of marketing materials

36. We require smaller but faster composition – we are graduates but still childrenyear 2007 Aim: • Less subjects in final grade of eight-year long primary schooling in Canton Sarajevo Activities: • Production and distribution of leaflets • Production and distribution of posters • Round table