Daugavpils Stropu Basic School-Development Center "Support measures for pupils with disabilities in learning Math"

Description

Funding:

NGO actions

Type of resource:

Manuals

Target group:

Schoolchildren with disabilities, educators

Description:

The Daugavpils Stropu Basic School-Development Center published a report with brief info on special education programs in Latvia, informs on kinds of learning disabilities, learning support measures, assistance in Mathematics of the 5th-6th grade, practical examples of teaching basic mathematical concepts for children with different learning disabilities. Visual support, practical work, active participation, meaningful tasks, acceptable teaching materials, interactive games.

Geographic coverage:

Latvia

Pandemic relevance:

Level of education:

Secondary

Education setting:

Formal

Digital tools involved:

Interactive boards, learning platforms

Timeframe:

Long-term

Sustainability:

Completed

Competences aimed:

Digital skills:
Social skills:

Level of implementation:

Methodological

Importance:

Successful contribution to the implementation of UNCRPD: Giving accessible information to disabled people and better access to information, disabled schoolchildren have access to innovative technologies, disabled schoolchildren get proper support for learning.
Impact: The practice has a positive impact in providing/enhancing access to high-quality community-based services for persons with disabilities promoting inclusion. Based on observations of children who experience difficulties with maths, this material gives a useful guidance for teachers and overview on why individual students “struggle” with maths. Presentation contains summary information on methods of teaching mathematics for learners of the 5th-6th levels of Basic School who have learning disorders/mixed development disorders - dyslexia (reading disorders), dysgraphia (writing disorders), dyscalculia (disorders of mathematical skills) - for the two last school years (2020-2021, 2021-2022). With appropriate and special teaching strategies, schoolchildren can be successful in mathematics.
Accessibility and inclusive education: The practice addresses accessibility and inclusive education issues (Microsoft accessibility, UDL).