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THE DESKS FOR SPECIFIC CONSULTANCY ARE ACTIVATED
Specific learning disabilities (DSA) have finally found an adequate response in Alto Friuli. The project, started with the conference organized by the Municipality of Tolmezzo 29 October 2010 in Tolmezzo and followed by the training course, divided into several meetings and aimed at teachers, has seen more than 60 teachers from schools in Carnia, Gemonese and Tarvisiano of 18 institutes of different orders and degrees, with the guidance of Dr. Cristiana Melon of the S.C.O. of Child Neuropsychiatry and Pediatric Neurology of the IRCCS Burlo Garofolo of Trieste and of Dr. Elena Bortolotti of the Faculty of Education Sciences of the University of Trieste.
The awareness and specific preparation of teachers who have become representatives for this subject at their schools was dedicated to this phase. The next step was the launch of a traveling consultancy desk in the schools of Carnia, Gemonese and Tarvisio under the guidance of Dr. Germana Englaro and Dr. Ingrid Bersenda. The door was activated in 3 educational circles, 6 comprehensive institutions, 2 lower secondary schools e 6 secondary schools for a total of 109 complexes to which teachers and families can access for specific consultancy.
In this way, a real service distributed throughout the territory was established, at the individual school sites at a rate of two or three monthly meetings, for the collection and examination of the reported problematic situations and possible sending for diagnostic intervention at the Health Services Company No. 3 “Upper Friuli”.
From a very first evaluation it can be stated that all this activity represents the response that schools have been waiting for for some time, to support the problematic learning situations of a fairly large number of students. From the data collected, following the first month of activity, in fact, it emerges that the request for advice from parents, teachers and students, for the personalization of teaching and for the study method in cases of learning difficulties it represents the 76% of consultancy compared to more generic requests.
Now the next step will be, once the project is finished, that of maintaining the service in a stable form in the territory, bringing it up to speed with the adequate financial interventions that state law provides and with the participation of the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region.
The municipal administration of Tolmezzo, which has taken on the task of promoting teacher awareness and training activities, expresses deep gratitude to the General Management of the Alto Friuli Health Services Company for having financially supported the project, as well as the team of Dr. Marco Carrozzi of the S.C.O. of Child Neuropsychiatry and Pediatric Neurology of the IRCCS Burlo Garofolo of Trieste who drafted and supported it.
The opening calendars of the branches can be consulted at the bottom of this page.
The Education Councilor
Prof. Mario Cuder
*29/03/2012
For learning disabilities, we will focus on permanent help desks
by David Zanirato
Among all the various requests from parents from Alto Friuli to the world of school, I am the province 76% of these are addressed to a need for consultancy and personalization of teaching and for the study method in cases of learning difficulties or dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, dysorthography.
The indication emerged from the data collected, following the first month of field activities of the project dedicated to specific learning disabilities (DSA), started in October 2010 from the municipality of Tolmezzo in collaboration with Burlo Garofolo of Trieste, the Ass n. 3 Alto Friuli, the schools of Carnia, Gemonese and Tarvisiano, the University of Trieste. After that initial appointment, the path continued with a training course, divided into several meetings and aimed at teachers, has seen more than 60 teachers from schools in Carnia, Gemonese and Tarvisiano of 18 institutes of different orders and degrees, with the guidance of Dr. Cristiana Melon of the S.C.O. of Child Neuropsychiatry and Pediatric Neurology of the IRCCS Burlo Garofolo of Trieste and of Dr. Elena Bortolotti of the Faculty of Education Sciences of the University of Trieste.
The awareness and specific preparation of teachers who have become representatives for this subject at their schools was dedicated to this phase. The next step was the launch of a traveling consultancy desk in the schools of Carnia, Gemonese and Tarvisio under the guidance of Dr. Germana Englaro and Dr. Ingrid Bersenda. The door was activated in 3 educational circles, 6 comprehensive institutions, 2 lower secondary schools e 6 secondary schools for a total of 109 complexes to which teachers and families can access for specific consultancy.
“In this way – explains Mario Cuder, education councilor of the municipality of Tolmezzo – a real service distributed throughout the territory has been established, at the individual school sites at a rate of two or three monthly meetings, for the collection and examination of the reported problematic situations and possible sending for diagnostic intervention at the Health Services Company No. 3 “Upper Friuli”. From a very first evaluation it can be stated that all this activity represents the response that schools have been waiting for for some time, to support the problematic learning situations of a fairly significant number of students".
Now the next step will be, once the project is finished, that of maintaining the service in a stable form in the territory, with permanent counters, bringing it up to speed with the adequate financial interventions that state law provides and with the participation of the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region.
* Tolmezzine Chronicles (April 2012)
