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Integration

Learn about the integration principles and support services for special needs children in the Dutch education system, including legislation, clusters of expertise, peripatetic services, and the balance between mainstream and special education.

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Integration

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  1. Integration in The Netherlands Loek Mak-Peters and Mieke van Waaijenburg

  2. Principles: • Proximity • Normalisation Dienst Ambulante Begeleiding Midden Nederland

  3. The balance: • Mainstream education whenever possible • Special education if and when necessary Dienst Ambulante Begeleiding Midden Nederland

  4. New Legislation 1998 • Primary School Act (WPO) • Secondary School Act (WVO) • Act on Centers of Expertise (WEC) Dienst Ambulante Begeleiding Midden Nederland

  5. Centers of Expertise • Cluster 1: visual impairment • Cluster 2: auditory impairment, severe language and communication problems • Cluster 3: physically handicapped children, multicomplex problems • Cluster 4: psychiatric disorders and severe behaviour problems Dienst Ambulante Begeleiding Midden Nederland

  6. The tasks of a center of expertise • To provide education • To provide peripatetic teachers • To develop knowledge in their field of expertise • Diagnostic services Dienst Ambulante Begeleiding Midden Nederland

  7. Cluster 4 • What is the basis for a “statement” in cluster 4? • A diagnosis according to DSM IV; or • Six months of therapy from a healthcare institution; • Problems in the following areas: • School; • Home; • Leisure time. Dienst Ambulante Begeleiding Midden Nederland

  8. “The Backpack-principle” • If “statemented” a pupil in primary education, secondary education has a choice: • Special Education or • Mainstream Education in combination with a so-called “backpack” Dienst Ambulante Begeleiding Midden Nederland

  9. Peripatetic services • To help and support schools from the perspective of the special needs pupil Dienst Ambulante Begeleiding Midden Nederland

  10. Mainstream schools • Draw up an Individual Education Plan (IEP) • Parents have to agree with measures taken and the way the money is spent • It is an agreement for one academic year • It is an agreement between parents and the mainstream school Dienst Ambulante Begeleiding Midden Nederland

  11. The peripatetic teacher • Draws up the Supportplan i.e. the agreement on what help the school wants, where, when, how often a peripatetic teachers drops in Dienst Ambulante Begeleiding Midden Nederland

  12. What activities e.g • Class – room visits; • Conversations with teachers on how to adapt learning, teaching and environment; • Teacher’s courses; • Workshops; • Procedures to obtain a statement; • Evaluative talks with teachers and parents Dienst Ambulante Begeleiding Midden Nederland

  13. Newer developments • Mainstream schools combine a number of pupils with a backpack to give the extra aid in a separate class-room in their school • Mainstream schools choose to specialize in one particular group of special needs pupils Dienst Ambulante Begeleiding Midden Nederland

  14. Inclusion • Ideology, fashion, money-matter or • An attempt to give a child a happy, friendly and stimulating environment in which it is accepted for itself and which tends to its particular needs. Dienst Ambulante Begeleiding Midden Nederland

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