Polish Experience with „learn rehabilitation methodic”
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Polish Experience Polish Experience with with
„learn „learn rehabilitation rehabilitation
methodic”methodic”
Polish Experience Polish Experience with with
„learn „learn rehabilitation rehabilitation
methodic”methodic”Partner MeetingPartner Meeting
Krakow 7-10th of May 2008Krakow 7-10th of May 2008
Parents and Children Parents and Children with Special Needswith Special Needs
in the Context of National in the Context of National Minority or ImmigrationMinority or Immigration
Parents and Children Parents and Children with Special Needswith Special Needs
in the Context of National in the Context of National Minority or ImmigrationMinority or Immigration
Trainer: Beata HelizanowiczTrainer: Beata HelizanowiczTime: 5 days (50 hours)Time: 5 days (50 hours)
Target group• Parents – mothers or fathers• with special needs children
(health, mental, behaviour problems)
• foreigners – immigrants or members of national minorities (Ukrainian, Romans, Byelorussians)
Target group – the piloting group:
• 8 mothers, • with 8 children: 2 of them
have mental disabilities, 3 - have ADHD diagnosis, 3 - have behaviour problems,
• 4 mothers was Ukrainian; 4 was Roman.
Description of the problem of the target
group:• very often they have to stay home and
take all-day care about their child;• they are not able to take care about their
own development and learning (LLL);• they have no contact with other people
living with the same problem;• very rarely they have contact with
specialists;• very often they are helpless: they have no
knowledge about needs of children and educational methods to work with them;
• they have a problem with organization of own time and time of work;
• they have many emotional problems.
What were our aims?• Supporting of social integration.• Development of cultural and
intercultural conscious. • Training and development of the
life skills• Development of knowledge • Development of family and
education skills• Learning to learn• Development of social and civic
competences• Development of sense of initiative
What have we done?The schedule of workshop:
• 14.03.2008:• Welcoming, initiation of project, introducing of
trainer.• Introducing of participants – talking in pairs;
introducing of interlocutor. • Expectations of participants – group work;
exchanging of information.• Troubles and problems of parents connected with
special needs children – exchanging of parents experiences – talking in groups, presentation of effects.
• Stress – definition, signals, treatment – lecture.• How to fight with stress? - exercises.• Child difficulties – opportunity or treatment for
parents? My ways to win difficulties – individual and group work.
• Who am I? My achievements, my dreams, my plans for future – individual drawing.
• Interpersonal communication – rules, correctness, blockades – lecture.
• Training of effective communication.
What have we done?The schedule of
workshop:
28.03.2008• The family as a system – cycle of family
life, family life phases; development of a child – lecture.
• Special needs children problems (ADHD, mental or physical disease, behavioural problems) – exchanging of experiences.
• Educational training for parents (part one):– setting the bounds for the children,– recognition of needs and emotions of
the children,– helping child in expression of the
needs and emotions,
What have we done?The schedule of workshop:
• 29.03.2008:• Educational training for parents
(part two):• a. how to learn cooperating,• b. punishment in education – yes or
not?• c. the effective communication
between the members of family – the ways of solving conflicts,
• stimulation of self-dependence of the child.
What have we done?The scedule of
workshop:• 11.04.2008:
• Educational training for parents (part three):
• helping child to get out of “role”,• how to praise children.• Assertiveness training for parents.• What kind of needs have parents as
people? – group work.• LLL – presentation of idea and
practice. • The ways of auto-presentation –
exercises.
What have we done?The schedule of
workshop:
• 12.04.2008:– Cultural differences – SWOT
analyze; group work and discussion.
– How to solve practical problems? How to prevent conflicts? – group works.
– Presentation of cultural richness of participants.
– Recapitulation and evaluation of workshop.
Training methods:• appealing to self – experience of
participants of training,• building on present skills,• consolidation of self – strength,• using the local possibilities,• active participation in training,• exchange of opinions and
experiences,• individual counselling,• cooperation,• using the multimedia presentation,• using the dictaphone to analyse
talking parents with children and auto presentation.
Evaluation – methods
• We made a monitoring of process during the workshop – with supervising of the team;
• Participants of workshop gave us their feedback during the workshop and on the end of training (recorded on dictaphone);
• Participants made a questionnaire on the end of training.
Results - Training and development of the life skills
Participants as the most Participants as the most important skills mentioned:important skills mentioned:
– methods of solving conflicts, – development of positive self -
thinking, – the ways of fighting with
stress,– the ways of auto –
presentation,– the ways of time – organization,
Results - Development of knowledge
Participants as the most Participants as the most important subjects mentioned:important subjects mentioned:
–family relations – circle of family life,
–development of a child,–the special needs of a child,–the effective methods of education.
Results - Family and education skills:
Participants as the most important Participants as the most important skills mentioned:skills mentioned:
– recognition of needs and emotions of the family members,
– helping child in expression of the needs and emotions,
– the effective communication between the members of family,
– setting the bounds for the children,– positive thinking about family,
children, possibilities of development of the family members.
Results - Training methods:
Participants as the most helping Participants as the most helping methods mentioned:methods mentioned:
• appealing to self – experience of participants of training,
• active participation in training,• exchange of opinions and
experiences,• counselling,• cooperation,• using the multimedia presentation,• using the dictaphone to analyse
talking parents with children and auto - presentation.
Conclusions:• Workshop should be longer.• Participants would like to
continue the group work; they decided to meet every month in supporting group.
• There were the necessity of division of group along with child problems and working more.
• Trainer should better know cultural and social life context of participants.
Trainer qualification - knowledge
• Psychology of child development;
• Children disabilities; • Psychology of communication;• Ways of solving educational
problems;• Group process;• Language of participants;
Trainer qualification - knowledge
• Cultural and social life context of participants;
• LLL principles;• Ways of adult education;• Principles of life skills training.
Trainer qualification -skills
• Taking contact with group;• Individual therapeutic talking;• Working on group process;• Effective communication;• Empathy;
Trainer qualification -skills
• Sense of humour;• Assertiveness;• Experience in working with
foreigners;• Openness for difference.