Title:
How children, schools and parents can successfully address developmental difficulties : a case study from Israel
Authors:
Centre for Learning Competence
,
Bernard van Leer Foundation programme staff
Year:
2006
Serial number:
107
Journal:
Early Childhood Matters
Pages:
49
-
51
ISSN:
1387-9553
Language:
eng
Subject:
Education, Science and Technology
Keywords:
education
,
children
,
disability
Abstract:
In 2005, the Centre for Learning Competence (clc) in Israel and the Bernard van Leer Foundation began a three-year collaboration to enable disadvantaged young children in the cities of Haifa, Netanya and Rishon-Lezion to begin their school education within a climate conducive to the natural development of children’s minds and bodies. The approach questions the conventional distinction between education for ‘normal’ children and special education for children with disabilities. It recognises that children acquire abilities at different rates and that most children need support in developing particular abilities. If this support is provided at the right time, in the right way, many children who would otherwise have been called ‘disabled’ can remain in mainstream environments with ‘normal’ children. The CLC provides effective therapy for children diagnosed with developmental
difficulties; but it prefers to create early learning environments that pre-empt the emergence of developmental difficulties and encourage every
child to flourish.
Organization:
Bernard van Leer Foundation
Country:
Israel
Region:
Western Asia
Category:
Practice
Right:
© 2006 Bernard van Leer Foundation
Document type:
E-article
File:
124185.pdf