Paragon Europe led the seminars for the ‘All Special Kids – Parents’ Project at the Corinthia Palace Hotel on 28thApril and 25th May, 2016. The events were very successful, attended by NGOs, civil society organisations, representatives from public institutions like ETC and KNPD, Agenzija Sapport, representatives from University of Malta, head of schools, teachers, NGOs dealing with disabilities, parents and families.

The first seminar focused on basic rights in special education; self-determination and happy/successful children; the necessity for environmental adaptation; and the need to create a vision for the future to raise the quality of life of families of children with special educational needs. At the second session, greater emphasis was given to understanding the child’s learning style; effective communication; and an individualised education programme for parents and their children with disabilities. Attendees had the chance to discuss students’ learning difficulties and guidelines for parents and teachers were given.

The project is EU-funded through the Erasmus+ programme and focuses on the need for promotion of psycho-social adjustment and raising the quality of life of families of children with learning difficulties by guiding, counselling and training services to ensure active participation in the education of their children. The intended and most important message of the stakeholders for the parents of children with difficulties is making them feel that they are not alone!

ASKParents is led by KarsiyakaIlce Milli Egitim Mudurlugu in Turkey and includes five international partners from Spain, Italy, Malta, Romania and the UK. Malta is represented by Paragon Europe. The ASK Parents project has a total budget of €143,461 and will run for 24 months, having started in September 2015.

The project will continue with Training Sessions planned in collaboration with the project partners and will be targeted at parents and educators. More information will be available soon. Paragon Europe prides itself in being involved in projects for Social Inclusion and aims to support the delivery of successful projects in a way that ensures benefits for all minorities in society and plans to collaborate on many more such projects in the future.

For more information, please contact us on f.kodrasi@paragoneurope.eu

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