Objectives: You will be able to know and identify
- School requirements and how to prepare your child for it. (Expectations, and documents)
- Basic skills needed for joining schools.
- Effective learning support teacher`s skills(This will help while recruiting)
- Essential alignments between services your child receive, and readiness for school. (Both should work in a parallel way)
- Your child`s rights and responsibilities.
School requirements and how to prepare your child for it
“Never under-estimate yourself as the parent of a child with special needs, You will always be your child`s best therapist and advocate”
Anonymous writer
Pay a visit to the required nursery, school, or university at least a year before your child`s enrollment, ask them about all requirements needed .This will give you enough time to prepare your child`s file.
Provide the educational institution with a diagnostic file that includes all medical information, and previous assessments about your child. Plan for a conference where you, your child`s therapists and service providers meet with school administration to discuss any points and make any needed clarifications.
Basic skills needed for joining Multiple Educational Institutions. (Nurseries)
Pay a visit to the required nursery, school, or university at least a year before your child`s enrollment, ask them about the basic skills needed. This will give you enough time to prepare your child and help him \her gain these skills. (Skills are age-appropriate)
Basic skills needed for nurseries (Children are expected, with assistance to be able to)
- Follow very simple instructions.(Learning support teachers play a vital role in helping students understand and respond accordingly)
- Communicate basic needs in any way(.(Learning support teachers play a vital role in helping students communicate in a lot of multiple channels)
- Share with others, take turns, join in activity groups …
- Identify basic patterns, shapes, colors, numbers, relations, etc. …
Basic skills needed for schools and universities depend on child`s age and grade level, or academic year they are expected to join.(In addition to all skills gained at the nursery level)
Effective learning support teacher`s skills ( This will help while recruiting)
Hiring a professional learning support teacher will maximize your child`s chances to have an effective and successful learning experience: These are essential roles and responsibilities for Learning Support Teachers
- Assess children who have long or short-term learning difficulties and working with colleagues to identify individual pupils’ special needs.
- Collaborate with the stakeholders to define appropriate activities for the pupils in relation to the curriculum.
- Use special equipment and facilities, such as audiovisual materials, fidgets, assistive technology, computers…etc, to stimulate interest in learning.
- Develop and adapt conventional teaching methods to meet the individual needs of students.
Essential alignments between services your child receive, and readiness for school.(Both should work in a parallel way)
- Skills and expectations communicated by the chosen educational institution for your child should be collected and shared with therapists and service providers.
- These skills and expectations should then merge into the child`s multiple programs. Programs are then reviewed and evaluated to find whether, or not the desired goals have been met.(This is the best way to make sure your child is ready for next step)
Know your child`s rights
Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities
Article 5 Equality and non-discrimination
Article 7 Children with disabilities
Article 8 Awareness-raising
Article 9 Accessibility
Article 19 Living independently and being included in the community
Article 24 Education
Article 26 Habilitation and rehabilitation
Article 27 Work and employment
Article 30 Participation in cultural life, recreation, leisure and sport
Article 32 International cooperation
Seliem`s Graduation
