Association

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AssociationCorporation of united citizens
actions DUGA Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Association Duga sets in motion, directs and
monitors the development of democratic society
through

• promotion of childrens right to education in an
  environment focusing on a child,
• advancement of expert competencies of teaching,
  health, and social protection professionals, as
  well as civil society representatives.

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The association practices the following
activities

• I Activities aimed at improvement of
  educational status of children with barriers to
  learning
• II Training of teaching professionals in the
  area of inclusive education
• III Participation in on-going reforms regarding
  pre-school and primary school education

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I Activities aimed at improvement of educational
status of children with barriers to learning

• Prevention
• Psychological counselling,
• Special Pedagogue work,
• Stress and Anxiety Prevention Program.

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• Support
• Psychological counseling
• Creative Family Workshops
• Hipotherapy
• Development of individual educational programs in
  schools
• Advisory for parents, carers and teaching
  professionals

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• Treatment
• Special Pedagogue treatment
• Speech therapy
• Psychological therapy

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II Educational programs for pre-school carers,
teaching professionals, school menagments, health
and social protection workers, and local
governement representatives regarding inclusive
education.
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III Participation in on-going reforms regarding
pre-school and primary school education

• Advocacy aimed at fulfillment of childrens right
  to quality education

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Characteristics of children benefitting from
Associations activities

• Number of beneficiaries in year 2007
• 184 children (75 new beneficiaries)
• 62 parents
• 30 primary schools

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Implemented projects
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Psychosocial support to adolescents of Canton
Sarajevo1994 - 1999MDM - Duga

• Beneficiaries adolescents
• parents
• On average 400 beneficiaries a year
• Individual counseling and treatment provided by
  GP, child psychiatrist, child psychologist and
  special pedagogue
• Group work facilitated by
• psycho-pedagogues/psychologist/psychiatrist/social
  worker and associates (photographer, journalist
  and radio presenter)

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Institutional Capacity Buiding of Parents
Associations of Children With Special Needs in
BHyear 2002.

• Beneficiaries 4 parents associations in Maglaj,
  Pale, Goražde and Tuzla.
• Project activities
• Workshops for associations project development
• Provision of grants for structure development and
  organisational support
• Evaluation meetings
• Development of Special Olympics programs

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Psychosocial Support to Children and Adolescents
of Canton Sarajevo1999 - 2005Duga

• Beneficiaries children and youth
• parents
• On average 300 beneficiaries a year
• Individual counseling and treatment provided by
  GP, child psychiatrist, child psychologist,
  special pedagogue and speech therapist
• Group work facilitated by
• psycho-pedagogues/psychologist/psychiatrist/social
  worker and associates (photographer, journalist
  and radio presenter)

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Support to children with special needs in
mainstream schools in Canton Sarajevo2005 to
presentDuga

• Beneficiaries children
• parents/carers
• educators/teachers

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Schooling Adjusted to Children with Special Needs
in mainstream primary schools in BHSeptember
2000 June 2002

• Project was implemented in 16 primary schools
• 51 classroom
• 51 teacher
• 16 pedagogues

When enrolled to II class
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Pupils with special needs had the following
difficulties

• Learning difficulties
• Delayed psychomotor development
• Underdeveloped and impaired speech
• Mental retardation
• Emotional and social immaturity
• Educational neglect
• Underdeveloped visual and auditory reception
• Autistic spectrum disorder
• Visual impairment
• Epilepsy
• Chronic diseases

• 1772 pupils were enrolled to I grade. 195 (11)
  of these pupils had some special educational
  needs.

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Elaboration of Modules and Education of Primary
School Teachers in Inclusive EducationMay
August 2005

• I Development of the Initial Program of Education
• The program consists of 4 modules, and has an aim
  of professional upgrade of expert competencies of
  teachers working with children with special
  needs. Special Pedagogues, Pedagogues and a
  trainer participated in the elaboration.
• II Education of teachers from 13 primary schools
  of Canton Sarajevo and 10 primary schools of
  Srpska Republic
• Beneficiaries
• 23 primary school teachers from Canton
  Sarajevo
• 22 primary school teachers from Srpska
  Republic
• The participants received attendance confirmation
  at finalisation of the training

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Protection of childrens right to education and
non-discriminatory approach to children with
special needs 2005 - 2006

• Locations Fojnica, Bugojno, Cazin, Široki
  Brijeg, Šamac and Višegrad
• Participants
• 147 primary school teachers
• 83 parents
• 72 local community representatives
• Main project activities

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I Three-day initial program of education for
primary school teachers in inclusive education

• Proposed education consisted of 4 modules
• Introduction to Inclusive Education
• Functional Approach to Curriculum Planning and
  Pupil Assessment
• Behavioural and Social Skills Disturbing and
  Challenging Behaviour within the Context of
  Inclusive Approach to Education
• Instructional Strategies Developing an
  Individual Education Plan, Effective
  Instructional Strategies for the Classroom

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II One-day workshop for parents in inclusive
education III One-day workshop for Jednodnevna
radionica za predstavnike local community
representatives in inclusive educationParticipan
ts representatives of health institutions,
social protection centers, pre-school
institutions, primary schools and NGOs.
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Citizen governance of public primary schools in
favour of children rights protectionyear 2007

• project aim
• Encouragement of active participation of public
  primary school bodies in implementation of the
  Law on Primary and Secondary Education in Canton
  Sarajevo, thus ensuring the protection of
  children right to adequate education.
• beneficiaries from 8 primary schools in Canton
  Sarajevo
• school bodies workshops (school boards,
  teacher/parents/pupils councils 512
  participants
• round tables 170 participants

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One-day and two-day seminars for primary school
teachers Dec 2007. and Jan 2008.

• location Sarajevo and Zenica
• Themes
• opservation,
• initial assessment,
• development of individual adjusted curriculum,
• follow-up,
• evaluation.

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Inclusive educationyear 2008.

• Project aim is to contribute to the improvement
  of teaching practices in inclusive education in
  BiH.
• Project objective is to support education
  authorities in fulfilment of their obligations in
  relation to inclusive education.
• Main project activities
• training of trainers for 26 local trainers in
  initial inclusive education program in order to
  increase possibility for professional upgrade of
  teaching professionals (Sarajevo, Mostar, Tuzla,
  Banja Luka i Zenica).
• development of advanced inclusive education
  program in order to continuously raise the
  competencies of teaching professionals.

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Research
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Children with Special Needs in Bosnia and
Hercegovina 2003 - 2004

• Mapping,
• Attitudes assessment regarding inclusive
  education teaching professionals, pre-school
  educators, pedagogues and parents on the random
  sample of 30 of pre-school and primary school
  institutions in BH

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DIFFICULTY

1. Intellectual impairments
2. Disturbances in speech and language
3. Hearing impairments
4. Vision impairments
5. Chronic diseases and bodily impairments
6. Combined difficulties
7. Behaviour problems
8. Neglected children
9. Abused children
10. Self-harm and suicidal tendencies
11. Children with PTSD
12. Returnees
13. Children from minority groups
14. Children from incomplete families
15. Talented
16. Gifted

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Atitude assessment of school staff showed that

• 10 of participants gave their full support to
  inclusive education
• 78 of questioned persons had positive attitudes
  when basic prerequisites were fulfilled
• 12 of participants did not support inclusive
  education

Atitude assessment of parents showed that

• positive attitudes were present in 86 of parents
• negative attitudes were present in 6 of
  participants
• neutral answers were provided by 8 of parents

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Inclusive Education Feasibility Assessment in
Birac AreaDec 2004 April 2005

• Aim collection and interpretation of the main
  data about children and youth with special needs
  their number, nature and extent of their
  special needs, educational status, the need and
  possibility for change, as well as direction of
  such change. Assessment of organisational and
  technical capacities of relevant organisations
  and institutions was performed.

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Cooperation of NGOs and mainstream primary
schools regarding inclusive education

• Cooperation of Association Duga and primary
  schools Kovacici and 9 May
• The paper was presented at XIII International
  Congress of Comparative Pedagogy, Sarajevo
  2007.god.

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Publishing
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Translation of Whats Wrong with Timmy author
Maria Shiveryear 2002

• The book was translated and printed in 150 sets
  in Bosnian, Croatian and Srbian language
• Distribution of the books in primary schools

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Manualsyear 2001

• Preparation, printing and distribution
• School based project for children with
  disabilities in BiH Teachers Manual
• Manual for Inclusive Classroom
• year 2006
• Preparation, printing and distribution
• Manual for Inclusive Education

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Stress and Anxiety Prevention in Children
Programyear 2002

• Translation and printing of
• facilitators manual
• 10 sets of books for children

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Campaigns
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Child Tailored Schoolsyear 2002

• Awareness rising of the importance of inclusive
  education and childrens rights
• Activities
• Production and broadcasting of 4 TV telops
• Performance in TV programs on Perspectives of
  education in BH inclusive education for
  children with special needs
• Printing and distribution of 6600 copies of
  marketing materials

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We require smaller but faster composition we
are graduates but still childrenyear 2007

• Aim
• Less subjects in final grade of eight-year long
  primary schooling in Canton Sarajevo
• Activities
• Production and distribution of leaflets
• Production and distribution of posters
• Round table