Dyslexia: signed MoU
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"Together fight for recognition and dyslexia. About 350,000 Italian students aged 6 to 19 years (an average student in every class of 20 students) suffer from dyslexia, a common cause of school dropout and self-esteem problems related to learning and motivation.
To provide support to these children, Education Minister Mariastella Gelmini, the president of Italy Foundation Telecom Joaquín Navarro-Valls and the president of the Italian Dyslexia Rosabianca Leo signed on 3 March, a Memorandum of Understanding, aimed at implementing two projects operating throughout the country, an "It's never too early for early detection and combating dyslexia in Italian schools and the other" A school of Dyslexia "for the training of 6,000 teachers' referents.
The agreement is part of a wider program of actions already undertaken by the Foundation Telecom Italy and Italian Dyslexia Association in 2009 for a period of three school years and an investment by Telecom Italy Foundation, 1.5 million euro. This program includes two operational projects, "Campus computing" and "The multimedia backpack."
The "It's never too soon" is aimed at early detection of specific learning disabilities. It is shown that a timely diagnosis is crucial for the recovery of these disorders. If you are working properly by the second year of primary school can reduce the amount of noise significantly more than in subsequent years. The project, which will last three years, aims to define and test a screening protocol for scientifically reliable, repeatable evenly over the national territory, to identify risk indicators are more sensitive and test the effectiveness of targeted educational and early intervention. It will then be analyzed 3yo for the development of reading and writing skills of 7,000 children, involving 300 classes and teachers of public and private schools.
The project "A School for Dyslexia" strives for the specific training of teachers and testing of inclusive teaching methods based on the use of the personal computer. Activates a network of 6,000 teachers' contacts "involving, over 3yo, schools of all levels in all Italian regions.
Teachers will receive specific training, theory and practice for the management of students with specific learning disabilities also aimed to introduce and encourage the use of personal computers in the classroom.
The "Campus computing" aims to educate dyslexic children use the computer tools useful for studying and learning, through an estate, in the summer months, in groups of about 15 people divided by class , integrating teaching and moments of personal confrontation.
for each year of the project will involve 60 young people from various Italian regions, the age group between 12 and 15 years.
"The media pack" for a term of three years, involves the construction of a digital library on the web available to all dyslexic student. This format, it allows you to read the book on a PC with a speech program or through an e-book reader and is one of the most effective aids to the successful integration of the dyslexic student. Project's ultimate objective is to make available a real digital library on the web (www.biblioaid.it), in which each student can access and download after registering the textbooks.
The four operational projects will be developed throughout the country, with particular attention to those situations where the specific learning disorders are poorly recognized and protected. In addition to the achievement of immediate objectives, the projects have been constructed to serve as a model in the implementation, by institutions School of measures for the welfare of the boys in class who suffer from these problems. "
Source: Ministry of Education, Universities, research
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