Event “Enhancing the skills of youth with learning disabilities” on 22 June 2018 – Brussels, Belgium In the context of the “Intelligent Serious Games for Social and Cognitive Competence” project (ISG), we organised the event “Enhancing the skills of youth with learning disabilities” on 22 June 2018, in Brussels, Belgium. The event highlighted a whole range of initiatives that have as common goal to enhance skills of youth with (learning) disabilities. Target audience: People with disabilities, and their families and friends Teachers / Trainers / Tutors from inclusive and special education Youth and disability organisations Personal caregivers ICT and AT experts Program: 8.30-9.00: Registration and welcome OPENING (9.00-9.30) Opening + introduction to ISG – Karel Van Isacker (CEO, PhoenixKM) SESSION 1 (9.30-10.30) Increased independence for youth with learning disabilities Chair: Jean-Marie Vanhove (inclusion expert) 9.30 – 10.00: More independence for youth with learning disabilities – EU context: Helga Stevens (N-VA), Member of the European Parliament, Vice-Chair ECR, Co-chair Disability Intergroup 10.00 – 10.20: Witness accounts of pilot participants 10.20 – 10.30: Discussion – questions SESSION 2 (10.30 – 11.30) Need for skills enhancements: A European perspective Chair: Shervin Shirmohammadi, Sehir University, Turkey 10.30 – 10.50: EU Disability Policy: Inmaculada Placencia-Porrero (Deputy Head of Unit, for Rights of Persons with Disabilities within the Directorate General for Justice) 10.50 – 11.10: The need for skills training for people with disabilities: Mark Van Assche (TOLBO vzw) 11.10- 11.30: Discussion and questions Break + exhibition (11.30 – 12.00) SESSION 3: (12.00- 13.30) Examples of how skills training is applied in various initiatives towards vulnerable groups Chair: Petya Grudeva, MCA 12.00 – 12.20: Play2DO – MCA 12.20 – 12.40: Pathway+ and Speech pathology – Karel Van Isacker, PhoenixKM 12.40 – 13.00: Positive Leisure + Access Interact + ST4ALL – NARHU 13.00 – 13.30: Discussion and questions Closing words by Jan Buysse, Managing Director vleva Lunch (13.30 – 15.00) Break and exhibition of wide range of inclusion oriented projects (13.30 – 15.00) This project (2015-1-TR01-KA201-022247) has been funded with support from the European Commission (Erasmus+ Programme). This communication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

2.  Start date: 01 September 2017
 Duration: 36 months
 Funding: Erasmus+ programme, UK NA & BG
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 Strategic Partnerships for school education
 Main objective: Development of Innovation
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3.  To use mobile app to
◦ assess the effectiveness of mobile applications in
engaging children with moderate learning needs
◦ based on model created using tracked sensor data
(e.g., eye gaze, EEG and thermal measures) and
using games (continuous performance tests)
followed by analysis of this data for attention and
engagement.

6.  practitioners who need to put “education for all” into
practice: these are the teachers and teacher educators of
mainstream education, in inclusive settings, as well as
teachers in special educational settings.
 children/pupils with moderate/mild learning disabilities,
and their families, as well as representative NGOs/umbrella
organisations.
 policy makers from Ministries of Education, pedagogical
experts, schools, school authorities and their umbrella
structures around Europe;
 service providers providing services and / or support to
pupils with special educational needs; authorities at all
levels, with competences in the field of education;

7.  O1: Descriptive map of effective pedagogical
approaches
 O2: 5 mobile games
 O3: Mobile pedagogical
attention/engagement measurement App
 O4: Handbook for teacher educators
 O5: Manual for teachers
 O6: Impact and best practices report
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8. 2014-1-BG01-KA202-001529
Articulation
Test
Age
Calculator
Flashcards Worksheets
Speech and Language
Therapy
Online Tools

9.  To increase the educational chance of children with
speech and language impairments/problems by
creating pre-assessment mechanism to use by
teachers at kindergarten and primary schools.
 To help children to fully benefit from the education
with speech and language pathology online tool
(designed as interactive, highly engaging, user
friendly and amusing) that will include mobile
assessment, practical exercises and gamification
aspects.

10. Direct users:
 Kindergarten and pre-
primary school teachers
 Primary school teachers
 Psychological consultants
 Speech and language
therapists / Logopedists
 Special education
teachers
Beneficiaries:
 Children with disabilities
 Their parents
 NGOs and institutions
working about childhood
pedagogy
 Educational authorities
 Community centers
 Academicians

11. The main outputs of the project will be:
 IO1: Speech and Language Therapy Childhood
Education Report
 IO2: Benchmarks for Speech and Language Therapy
Education
 IO3: Speech and Language Therapy Online Tools
 IO4: Resource Pack for Teachers at Initial Education
 IO5: Usability Evaluation Report

12.  Give teachers greater confidence in working with
children who have speech and language problems by
providing speech and language pathology
online/mobile tools.
 Provides knowledge and experience to kindergarten
and pre-primary school teachers, primary school
teachers, psychological consultant of the schools,
speech and language therapists / logopedist.
 Improved language skills of students from primary
and secondary level school age between 4 and 10
years old.

13.  www.pedagogics-pathway.eu
 www.speechpathologytools.eu