Faculty of Education Faculty of Naturale Sciences and mathematics University of Maribor PROJECT LEONARDO DA VINCI Boris Aberšek Metka Kordigel Aberšek

Faculty of EducationFaculty of Naturale Sciences and mathematics

University of Maribor

PROJECT LEONARDO DA VINCI

Boris Aberšek Metka Kordigel Aberšek

Majda Schmidt

University of Maribor, Faculty of EducationFaculty of Naturale Sciences and mathematics

University of Maribor Pilot ProjectPARENTS: TRAINING MOST POWERFUL SUPPORTERS AND GUIDERS OF DISABLE PEOPLE

TARGET GROUPSThe main aims of the project are to train:

• Teachers to work with parents. Teachers are trained to work with children but they don’t have the necessary knowledge to work with adults, especially with very emotional adults (like parents of the disabled children)

• ParentsParents to become tutors for disabled children. This will enable parents to become a better support to disabled in the integration process in social and working environment.

• Employer for tutors. They should also become a better support to disabled in their working and social environment.



WHY?

• The developments of the tutoring system for disabled can than help us achieve the following:

• better quality of life for disabled people• to alleviate the work of people who are involved

with disabled• to raise the quality of integration of disabled in

all areas of their life• to help raise the work ability of disabled – to help

put the right people on the right work places, which will help to make disabled happier and satisfied and will result in better efficiency and satisfied employers.



Needs analyses and realisation of the aims and objectives

We decided that the target group is the people with small and medium special needs. The selected age group: young people who go to school and included also some adults to compare how they integrate in the working environment after they finish school.



We agreed that three fields of knowledge/skills should be transferred to parents:

• 1. Knowledge about the child's retardation (description of child's retardation, what can he achieve, what can be expected), knowledge about burn out effect and stress, skills for mastering stress and support for the parents.

• 2. Knowledge how to support child's literacy

• 3. Communication. Acquisition of skills for nonverbal communication – creative approach by work with the children with mental retardation.



For all interested we prepare the educational package with personal assistance of the project members.



RECOGNITION AND TREATMENT OF STRESS DISORDERS



Stress recognition can save a life

When it comes to a late or prolonged reaction to the severe stress events, like torment or sexual abuse, when it is about life and death, and when intrusive memories cause nightmares, anxiety, alienation, emotional apathy, and absence of responding, in such cases the recognition of stress can sometimes be of life importance, and the help of experts urgent.



So, what is stress?

Stress is a complex of physical, biochemical and mental reactions to circumstances that trigger confusion, unwillingness and agitation in humans. Reactions do not arise solely from stress factors themselves but mostly from our detection of an event and our reaction to it.



Do you have some strategy?

Our strategy is pointed toward areas of changing demands, and increasing capabilities for managing demands: 1.with relaxation (we have been using the technique of autogenous training very successfully for several years), 2.behaviour changes,3.changes in life style, and 4.improving characteristic features.



Help yourself, and…

Stress management is a knowledge,

which should be used by everybody, and is the basis for self-help. The knowledge in this field is even more important for doctors, psychologists, teachers, employers,

you.University of Maribor, Faculty of Education

Faculty of Naturale Sciences and mathematicsUniversity of Maribor Pilot Project

PARENTS: TRAINING MOST POWERFUL SUPPORTERS AND GUIDERS OF DISABLE PEOPLE

Hello, do you have burn out syndrom?

Carers of persons with dementia have increased rates of depressive illnes but the biological mechanisms by which the stress of caring can lead to mood disorders is not well understood

(Davis,Oxford).



Don’t forget The level of stress in tutors

influences the quality and number of interactions with a child.

Children of stress-managed tutors

make better progress.



What do we have to know, to train communication

skills

Metka Kordigel Aberšek



We decided to accept the advice of the Greek expert partners in the

project and lean the communication curriculum for parents to the

INTECOM model. University of Maribor, Faculty of Education



Why does INTECOM communication curriculum works?

We must widen the perspective:– From the question WHAT DO WE DO

WITH WORDS– we swich to the question

WHAT IS COMMUNICATION



WHAT IS COMMUNICATION

Communication is not only the act of speech. To understand what is going on we must consider other modes of "speaking act". We must think about types of communication.



How to teach?

At this point we reached our main point:

• the way (the didactics) how to "teach" communication competence of children with learning difficulties

• and how to teach their parents to

encourage the development of their communicative competence and to communicate with them more successfully.



How to develop contexts for teaching communication

• we can create teaching communication environment in an institution

or• we can teach tutors to use such situations in

child's every day life,

as the INTECOM

communication curriculum does.University of Maribor, Faculty of Education



Faculty of EducationFaculty of Naturale Sciences and mathematics

University of Maribor

Questions, discussion…?



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Faculty of Education Faculty of Naturale Sciences and mathematics University of Maribor PROJECT LEONARDO DA VINCI Boris Aberšek Metka Kordigel Aberšek