Ministry of Preschool Education of Uzbekistan introduces inclusive education
16/04/2019 21:42
Ministry of Preschool Education of Uzbekistan introduces inclusive education
16/04/2019 21:42
Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- On 15 April 2019, a grand opening of the pre-school educational institution No. 369 in Yakkasaray district of Tashkent took place. The educational institution on the basis of public-private partnership in the form of philanthropic activity was the first combined type of preschool institution, which will be visited by both healthy pupils and children with special needs.
The preschool pre-primary educational institution No. 369 of the Yakkasaray district of Tashkent became the first inclusive pre-school institution. The preschool institution combined type includes groups for children with mental retardation and general education groups.
“Inclusive education is necessary for everyone: healthy children and children with disabilities. We want to teach each child to be tolerant, to instill the idea that the value of a person does not depend on his abilities. At a young age, the psyche is open, plastic and ready for perception. Accustomed to the fact that people are different, children will not be in the future to persecute and laugh at those who are different from them. For pupils with special needs, a visit to the preschool institution will be an opportunity to gain communication skills, which will facilitate further social adaptation. Children will meet each other not only in the playground or in the dining room. In order to implement the principle of inclusion, every ordinary group will be visited by three special children, for example, with severe speech disorders. We hope that the preschool institutions supported by the sponsors will become larger,” Agrippina Shin, Minister of Preschool Education of Uzbekistan, said.
Preschool educational institution No. 369 of the Yakkasaray district plans to open 7 groups for pupils with mental retardation (up to 15 children in a group) and 7 groups of general education with inclusive orientation (up to 25 children in a group).
In specialized groups, children will be accepted on the basis of the conclusion of the medical-psychological-pedagogical commission. Their training program is an adapted version of the state program "Ilk Kadam" with the addition of daily classes with a pathologist.
All the conditions for comprehensive development of the personality are created in preschool: a physical therapy room is equipped for individual and subgroup classes in doctor’s appointments, a gymnasium, a summer swimming pool, a football field and a speech therapy center are in place, and the music education program is supplemented with correctional rhythms. Also in the preschool there is a psychologist who, in addition to working with children, provides counseling for parents and kindergarten staff.
Capital reconstruction and equipment of the institution were carried out at the expense of sponsorship. In the kindergarten No. 369 of the Yakkasaray district, for the first time, a public-private partnership is implemented in the form of philanthropic activity in the form of patronage, which means that the sponsors will continue to provide free aid to the institution.
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