blog.inclusion

Afslag på STU uddannelse må være i strid med FN´s Handicapkonvention

2011-10-15T16:15:00.002+02:00

Et Danmark der står sammen - fokus på læring og inklusion

2011-10-04T10:37:00.002+02:00

Ny regering har fokus på læring og inklusion i daginstitioner og skoler.
Som læringsspecialist og konsulent med Taler for mig selv PLUS
er dette rigtigt gode nyheder for Inclusion Software.

Læs uddrag fra regeringsgrundlag 2011 S-R-SF:

HØJERE KVALITET I DAGTILBUDDENE
Regeringen mener, at alle børn har ret til en god start på livet, hvor de har en tryg hverdag
og bliver set og anerkendt. For langt de fleste børn er dagtilbuddene rammen om en stor del
af børnelivet, og det er her grundstenen til en god skolegang lægges. Gode dagtilbud er
ligeledes en vigtig forudsætning for at bryde den sociale arv. Derfor er det af afgørende
betydning, at vores dagtilbud er af høj kvalitet.
Børn har brug for tryghed, udfordring, leg, samvær med voksne – ikke blot opsyn. Mange
forældre har gennem flere år oplevet, at kvaliteten af dagtilbuddene er blevet udhulet, så
der i dag er flere børn for hver voksen, og at pædagogerne i øvrigt anvender en større del af
deres tid på aktiviteter, der ikke er vendt mod børnene.
Regeringen ønsker derfor, at kvaliteten af dagtilbuddene øges, eksempelvis ved at der
stilles krav om minimumsnormeringer. Antallet af lukkedage bør begrænses. Regeringen vil
drøfte veje hertil med kommunerne.

EN BEDRE FOLKESKOLE, SÅ FLERE UNGE LÆRER MERE
Regeringen vil fremsætte forslag om en reform af folkeskolen. Folkeskolen skal være hele
Danmarks skole. Vi skal have en faglig stærk folkeskole, der har plads til og er attraktiv for
alle børn. En folkeskole, som skal sikre alle elever et højere fagligt udbytte af
undervisningen - uanset hvilke forudsætninger, det enkelte barn har for uddannelse.
En folkeskole, hvor færre elever modtager specialundervisning og flere inkluderes i den
almindelige undervisning med de nødvendige støtteforanstaltninger og faglige
udfordringer. En folkeskole, som kombinerer teoretisk viden og praktiske kundskaber og
motiverer til at lære mere. Og en folkeskole, der giver eleverne de bedste forudsætninger
for at blive aktive og kritiske medborgere.

Arbejdsbesparende for pædagoger

2011-07-05T08:02:00.004+02:00

Udviklende for børnenes sprog, koncentration.

Se video fra Grønnegården på Falster, som har lavet undersøgelsen med at introducere det sprogstimulerende materiale:
Taler for mig selv PLUS til børn i vuggestuealderen.

DPU har netop lavet en stor undersøgelse, som dokumenterer, at mindre børn bliver forsømt og dette kan modvirkes bla. ved at organisere hverdagen meget bedre for børnene.
Taler for mig selv PLUS viser vejen med sit børnevenlige koncept.
Softwaren er udviklet af Bob Black, UK og blev designet til børn med udviklingshandicap, primært Downs Syndrom. Og det har efterfølgende vist sig, at målgruppen er meget bred og også testet velegnet til de mindste børn i 2-9 års alderen. Softwaren indeholder tegn til tale videoklip.

Sprogstimulerende materiale til vuggestuebørn: Taler for mig selv PLUS

2011-06-28T12:18:00.000+02:00

Living with a sibling who has a handicap

2010-11-22T12:05:00.007+01:00

http://english.soeskende.dk/

Living with a sibling who has a handicap - now in English: web and DVD: But I wouldn´t swap.

My beautiful children and family is a part of that very important DVD.

Go ahead and have a look into the website and watch the trailor. (leo)

2008-12-18T10:21:00.006+01:00

Close institutions
Close the large institutions for people with development disabilities. It is Lene Elsig Dalgaard comment on the scandal on Strandvænget in Denmark.

By Lene Elsig Dalgaard, Inclusion Software

Shutter institutions just as they have in New Zealand! And help our fellow citizens with development disabilities to learn to operate a computer so they can learn to communicate. Yes, in general, offer people with development disabilities own computer as a part of our fellow citizens with disabilities are offered automatically as an aid. And ask them! They are human beings first of all. It is my bid for a decent existence as an alternative to the miserable lives, we offer the vast majority of people with development disabilities in this country. On Inclusion Europe's annual congress "Europe in action" in May 2005, which was held in Prague with participants from all over Europe and from around the world, was the theme "Towards living in the society". There were several people with development disabilities into the rostrum and described the pathetic and degrading it is to spend his life in an institution. The optimum is to offer small homes as they do in New Zealand in the project LIFE unlimited.
In my point of you it is not just the institutions, but our entire society - politicians and the press and to some parents' associations - there are too tough.
Who - in the media - are asking people with development disabilities what they think?
A few years ago I attended a conference in Lisbon, Real Live Media supported by the European Commission about media portrayals of people with development disabilities.

There was also attended by some people with development disabilities from other European countries. The message from them was unequivocal: Ask ourselves instead of trying to talk to us by educators and caregivers.
So: Help to communicate - for example by offering software that supports the development of spoken language and literacy.
This invitation, I will repeat here. And then I also mention that Ulf, Udviklingshæmmedes Landsforbund, has a great President, Lisbeth Jensen, who has the answers and experience.

No protection against smoke

2007-08-21T08:55:00.000+02:00

Children with learning disabilities are not protected by new Danish law about smoking when they are staying with foster families.
In a newspaper article in a local newspaper JP-Århus today, Tuesday 21.08.07 politicians from Ministry of Health say that the effort from foster families, although payed, where children with learning disabilities often stay seven days or more every month, is not regarded as work.
Therefore the foster families are allowed to smoke when they take care of children with learning disabilities in their homes.
The new law was introduced recently and main purpose of the law is to protect the population against the danger of passive smoking.

Welcome to the blog of Inclusion Software

2007-07-15T10:33:00.000+02:00

Welcome to this blog of Inclusion Software edited by Lene Elsig Dalgaard, who owns Inclusion Software, http://www.inclusion.dk/

This blog is focused on issues about human and legal rights for all, especially for people with learning diasbilies.

Inclusion Software resell English software and developes software designed especially for people with special educational needs. I also deliver lecturers on specific issues connected to inclusion for all. And write articles about this important subject that unfortunately seems to be of less importance to the majority of society.

As I am strongly committed to the African continent and visited countries in East Africa several times during the past 25 years, I am very concerned about the living conditions for people with learning difficulties in this area of the world.

Inclusion International is a global federation of family-based organizations advocating for the human rights of people with intellectual disabilities and their families worldwide. Read more on their website http://www.inclusion-international.org/en/
I am the mother of three children and my eldest daughter, Kirstine, who is 14 years old, was born with Down Syndrome, sight difficulties and she was operated for a severe heart disorder only five months old. She is a well functioning teenager, who enjoys her life.

My husband and I went to an important congress arranged by Inclusion Europe http://inclusion-europe.org/ in Warsaw, Poland in May this year. http://inclusion-europe.org/main.php?lang=EN&level=1&s=84&mode=nav2&n1=168&n2=651It was the first worldwide conference on this subject:

Citizens' Rights for All

Full citizens’ rights and legal protection for people with intellectual disabilities
Warsaw, 10-12 May 2007. The Congress examined what is required to ensure that people with intellectual disabilities enjoy legal capacity on an equal basis with others in all aspects of life, the support they may need to exercise this capacity, and how we can work to achieve necessary new laws and arrangements.

We met self advocates from Poland, UK, Czeck Republic, Slovenia, Russia and other countries, who want to and are able to decide by themselves.
The congress focused especially on Article 12 on legal capacity and concluded:

Lack of legal capacity means that your humanrights are violated
Without legal capacity comes discrimination
The existing guardianship system has verynegative consequences for the persons
The power of decision is in the hands of the guardians
Incapacitation gives a negative image of peoplewith intellectual disabilities

More information about the congress including powerpoint presentations and resoutions, conclusions:

http://www.blogger.com/kortlink.dk/inclusion-europe/42ry

Read more in English: http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/enable/
Read more in Danish: www.clh.dk/index.php?id=1273