The state of children with learning disabilities cancels special centers, apparently unnecessary. Parents sign
23. Mar 2025 at 17:45
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Where to go, it won’t advise them.
Košice. Instead of a special approach and the attention of experts, transition to a classic elementary school. The only facility of its kind in the east of Slovakia is located in Košice in the Barca district. It is a therapeutic and educational sanatorium on Tešedíkova Street. His days are counted. The ministry cancels it.
Children with impaired communication ability are learned there. Natalia’s son Jakub joined the sanatorium in September. With this diagnosis, psychologist, speech therapist and special pedagogue are dedicated to him in the preparatory, zero year of elementary school. There are eight in the classroom.
« In those few months, he has made huge progress. He began to speak with siblings with, C, Z, Š, č, no, so he can understand him better. Until the adults were understood, he was frustrated and uncooked with them. It has changed, he is more satisfied.
Sanatorium in Barc It uses the elements of the flowing reading of SFUMATO, phonetic awareness according to Eľkonin, develops all weakened areas non -violent and creative.
« Our goal is the personal development of each pupil as an individual being. We do not compare. Everyone is moving at their own pace and making progress according to their possibilities, » the device says on its website.
There are seven medical-educational sanatoriums in Slovakia. The resort has announced their cancellation In a fundamental reform of special educational facilities that introduced the public in February. According to the Minister of Education Tomáš Drucker (Voice) no longer fulfill their purpose.
Parents are opposed to such a procedure, writing a petition in Košice.
Children with learning disabilities
Since September, all children attending Košice facilities have to enter classic elementary schools. The Medical-Educational Sanatoriums are gradually canceling the Ministry of Education. These are educational institutions for children with developmental learning disabilities and children with activity and attention disorders.
Special educators also focus on children with this diagnosis on a gradual extension of the time interval during which they are to maintain attention. « We are all working on our children at home. It is beautiful to see, but it takes time, » says Natália.
« They are children who do not have such a difficult diagnosis to be in special schools, but they are not yet ready for a regular school because they do not manage the classic pace. They have a weaker speech, fast thought flow and do not perceive the teacher as long as they should, » he explains.
One psychologist for the whole school is not enough
Parents learned about the abolition of the sanatorium in mid -March, and the application for elementary schools should be submitted in early April.
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