Vasil Levski Secondary School Rousse, Bulgaria Discovering ІІІ Project Meeting 12-13 May 2011

Resource support in Bulgaria

Legislation Regulation № 6 from 19th August 2002 for teaching of children with special educational needs and/or chronic diseases In the public documents is talked about children with special educational needs as a term ”umbrella” “dyslexia, dyscalculia, disgrafiya “ are involved in this group

In Bulgaria is accepted a classification of the status Dyslexia according to ICD-10 F81.0- specific reading disorder-dyslexia F81.1- specific disorder of spelling-disgrafiya F81.2-specific disorder of arithmetic skills-dyscalculia F81.3- mixed disorder of the school skills

Resource support in Bulgaria of the children with special educational needs Structure for Bulgaria 28 Districts 29 Resource centres Resource centres assist the schools in the appropriate area and have consultative, educational, rehabilitating and coordinating function.

Resource support Resource centres assist the school in the relevant area In the schools with over 500 students there are regular speech therapist and psychologist, if necessary- a resourced teacher and a special educator

Activities at these centres diagnostics - therapy - work with parents - work with teachers

Specialists at the resource centres Speech therapists -psychologists -special educators -resource teachers -educator for blind -educator for deaf

Resource teacher Special educator who assists children and pupils with special educational needs in their inclusion in mainstream educational environment. He/She/ works with the child in the classroom and organizes individual or group work in the resource room. The resource teacher adapts the curriculum as necessary, performs input, intermediate and output diagnosis of the acquired knowledge on implement of the individual educational program and for covering the state educational requirements for learning contents.

Resource centre-Rousse 3 speech therapists 2 psychologists special educators 44 resource teachers 1educator for blind 1educator for deaf http://www.rcrusse.eu/index.html

Resource support of children with learning difficulties at “Vasil Levski” secondary school-Rousse 2 psychologists - 2 speech therapists - 2 resource teachers -a special educator for children of individual teaching

Activity at the school resource teachers Individual work with students Teaching

Art activities and developing games

Activity at the school speech therapists Diagnostics of children with speech difficulties; dyslexia, disgrafiya, dyscalculia ..... Children with dyslexia at school /from 1st till 12th grade/

Other organizations supporting children with learning difficulties Centres for Mental Health-public organizations that serve the city and the region. They offer diagnosis and a number of hours for therapy outside of the school environment. Private treatment centres

Mental Health Centre in Rousse

Other organizations supporting children with learning difficulties Private therapy centres Private organizations that offer diagnostics and therapy; supportive training in various disciplines

Private centres for children with learning difficulties organized by: a team of specialists, foundations or associations - the work with the children is paid by the parents or obtained project financing - These centres accept children from the whole country - The work is in various methods of diagnostics and correction

- accepts children from the whole country FIRST NATIONAL CENTER OF DYSLEXIA- BULGARIA and BULGARIAN DYSLEXIA ASSOCIATION- ROUSSE team : dipl. Dyslexia trainer, 2 psychologists, a speech therapist, musical educator - The work with the children is paid by the parents or obtained project financing - accepts children from the whole country - works on the author’s correction program ”New start” based on the method AFS of Dr. Astrid Kopp-Duller

Part 2 FIRST NATIONAL CENTER OF DYSLEXIA- BULGARIA and BULGARIAN DYSLEXIA ASSOCIATION- ROUSSE