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Support early to make easier the social inclusion

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2020-1-FR01-KA202-079967
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training Funder Contribution: 64,700 EUR

Support early to make easier the social inclusion

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In our society, when we talk about handicap, we often think about motor disability or intellectual disability - Even if this population is the most important part among disabled people, we do not have to forget other kind of disabilities, which make the autonomy and social inclusion and participation very complicated and sometimes not realistic. This project is talking about children with visual impairment, and especially very young children for whom our organisations try to give social inclusion and social participation for a better quality of life and to make them citizens in its own right. Our organisations are working on early intervention, from the early age of these children. This is very important for a better assimilation of what will give social inclusion and social participation. We support these very young children from birth, and also their families and relatives, in all the aspects of their life. This support is provided to each child as a whole : body skills development, autonomy in daily life, in the movings, in school pathway, and psychological support, and by a multidisciplinary team composed of social workers, professionals on rehabilitation, orthoptists, occupational therapists, psychologists.This support at very young age (often before 3 years old) is crucial for the future of the child. After long experiences of support, we know that a lack a this age is providing teenagers without autonomy, and without social inclusion and participation. The objective of our project is to favor the exchange of practices between different organisations in Europe to put in advance the methodologies, tools, and support provided, either to consider them as a good practice for blind or partially sighted children, either to admit that some practices are not the best for these children. Such exchanges in Europe will enable the professionals to improve their knowledge in the support of these children, for their benefit in the aim to improve the autonomy, the social inclusion and social participation of blind and partially sighted people, as citizen in its own right. Participants involved in this project are professionals including social workers, professionals on rehabilitation (mobility instructors, daily living instructors), psychologists, occupational therapists, orthoptists. Activities will include 2 mobilities. The first mobility in Angers (France) will enable participants to improve their knowledge about the different practices in Europe, but will also enable workshops and visits, especially on animal mediation. The second mobility in Vienna (Austria) will introduce different clinical cases for a good comprehension of best practices on early intervention, but also workshops dedicated to Echolocation, activity for the auntonomy of children with visual impairment. Out of these 2 mobilities, a steering committee will organise the different activities - we will use online system (skype, zoom) to keep contact with all the partners, and to provide all the information required to prepare the mobilities. As results, the partnership will discover and exchange good practices by sharing everyone's experiences in order to communicate them to professionals and partners (parents, schools, crèches, etc.) but also we will think about and identify strategies for supporting very young children: what are the areas to be tackled? at what stages of life? how to transmit them, what pedagogy to use? what tools at our disposal? What tools should be invented? All these results will be provided in formal presentations, as much for the presentation of practices, as for clinical cases, which will provide a guide on the practicies concerning early intervention in Europe.The impact of this project is to improve the social inclusion and participation, as well as the professional inclusion, of young children with visual impairment - this is an investment from the early age for a big impact at adulthood.

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