NEWS APRIL 2007
BHAKTILUHUR REHABILITATION PACKAGES.
WHY INCLUSIVE EDUCATION FOR DISABLED CHILDREN IN INDONESIA ?
There are many reasons for inclusive education of disabled children.
The main reason in Indonesia is that in most villages there are no schools for special education and parents are not able to pay for a boarding school and don’t like to be separated from there child. As a consequence many of these children are at home and do not go to school.
An other reason is that disabled children don’t like to be considered as abnormal children who are excluded of the normal life of the community .They like to be integrated in social life ,mix and play with other children and have the same opportunities without any discrimination.
The main objection against inclusive education is that schools for special education are better equipped to handle these children and that here they are more safe and protected against mishandling through others. This can be true for severely intellectually or physical disabled in Indonesia but it is not the case for deaf and blind children in Indonesia. In nearly all regions of East Indonesia there is only one school for disabled children, mostly only for intellectually disabled children in the Kabupaten town , and there is nothing for all the other villages.
Moreover often curricula, books and facilities of many schools for special education are inferior to the books and curricula of ordinary elementary schools.It is not easy to find employment with a diploma of a school for special education .
Bhakti Luhur sees as a solution for these thousands disabled children in so many villages in East Indonesia , specially the deaf and the blind. ,education packages which will make it possible that blind and deaf children after one year of intensive training will be included in ordinary grade schools and finish their education there with a good result.
At the moment a large number of the children are not going to school. A number of them are in regular schools ,but because they are not prepared to follow the curriculum, not prepared to learn how to read and to write they are just taking part in some school activities without being able to make any real progress. The Bhakti Luhur inclusive education packages will also help these disabled children and enable them to become fully integrated in the educational progress.
In many countries like the U.S. this already a law: “ Provison that teacher training programs shall include instruction in main streaming children with special needs as well as instruction regarding the IEP process”
The inclusive education program will be implemented by trained CBR workers specially trained for this task in the villages where the children life. They will also provide guidance for the children after they have been included in the regular elementary school and to the teachers who have these children in their class.
Bhakti luhur provides also inclusive education training packages
for local trainers of deaf and blind children.
BHAKTI LUHUR INCLUSIVE EDUCATION PACKAGE
FOR DEAF CHILDREN.
One year training enabling a deaf child to follow classes in a normal grade-school
Six hundred hours training , 40 weeks 15 hours a week.
Basic sign language and PECS included, also books for the teacher and training books for children .
If needed the child is provided with a hearing aid.
BHAKTI LUHUR INCLUSIVE EDUCATION PACKAGE
FOR BLIND CHILDREN.
One year training enabling a blind child to follow classes in a normal grade-school
Six hundred hours training , 40 weeks 15 hours a week.
Braille, brailler, tape recorder, books and materials for mathematics included.
BHAKTI LUHUR INCLUSIVE EDUCATION PACKAGE
FOR SLOW LEARNING CHILDREN.
One year training enabling a slow learning child to follow classes in normal grade-school
Six hundred hours training , 40 weeks 15 hours a week.
Special methodology for reading , writing and mathematics included.
BHAKTI LUHUR INCLUSIVE EDUCATION PACKAGE
FOR SEVERELY INTELLECTUALLY DISABLED CHILDREN. CHILDREN.
One year training according mental age in social competency enabling a SEVERELY disabled child to follow classes in special schools
Six hundred hours training , 40 weeks 15 hours a week.
Psychological tests and special methodology for selfhelp and socialization included.
BHAKTI LUHUR INCLUSIVE EDUCATION PACKAGE
FOR LOCAL TRAINERS OF DEAF CHILDREN.
Six months training enabling a local trainer with a high school diploma to implement the bhaktiluhur training package for deaf children and to help in adjusting and guiding the children after inclusion in a normal classes of a grade-school
Three hundred six hours training , 12 weeks 30 hours a week.
For teachers the training time will be much less.
Training books and materials included.
Also available
Package for trainers of blind children, intellectually disabled children,
Cost Plan Pro package
Pro individual child. CBR Boarding school
Training cost 4.800.000 2.400.000
Board and Lodging 3.000.000
Textbooks 600.000 600.000
Workbooks 400.000 400.000
Training materials 500.000 500.000
Training equipment 700.000 700.000
Transport 400.000 200.000
7.400.000 7.800.000
Examination and provision of Hearing and low vision aids
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