KSC - Educational Training Centre for Children with Disabilities and Special Needs
Educational Training Centre for Children with Disabilities and Special Needs will provide free of charge services to children with special needs. The main focus of the Centre is to raise the abilities of the children with special needs so that they became to attend mainstream educational institutions. The educational training is based on developing programmes designed to address the specific learning/ behavioural problems experienced by the child. The training will help the child get integrated into the school system, without feeling different and/or out of place, as much as possible. It will help build-up the child’s personality, and help the child be integrated both within the family and the community as a whole.
The Project is an outcome of close cooperation between KSC and Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs. The Center is to be located in a spacious building leased to KSC by the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (MoLSA) for the period of 5 years. According to the agreement between KSC and MoLSA, KSC will establish the Centre and run it for the period of 5 years. In running the Centre, KSC will gradually engage the Ministries of Education, Health, and Social Affairs in better understanding of the issues related to the rehabilitation of children with disabilities and special needs, and to their integration in the educational system and life of the community. At the end of 5 year period, KSC will hand over the Centre to the direct management by the related governmental institutions.
It is planned that the Center will admit children with special needs aged from 3 to 9 years old, in particular the children having delays in cognitive development, articulation/speech problems, slow learners with the IQs lower than average, children with developmental delay problems, CP, ADHD disorders, with autism and Asperger Syndrome Disorders, hearing impairments, and utterance problems resulting from congenital deformities.
