NEW CENTER FOR LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT TO JYVÄSKYLÄ
Dom, 29/01/2012 - Vie, 01/06/2012
NEW CENTER FOR LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT WILL START IN JYVÄSKYLÄ
Jyväskylä is emerging a new kind of learning and development center when the two state special schools, Jyväskylä School for the Visually Impaired, and The Haukkaranta School, school for pupils with learning difficulties related to autism, Asperger's syndrome, dysphasia visual or impairment or hearing impairment, are combining administratively and operationally until year 2013.
In 2015 should be completed the new national resource center and school for special education, which will operate in conjunction and cooperation with each others. The new center will give services and support to pupils and students who are now studying at those two schools, but also resource services to different customers. The Center is intended to be a good example of a barrier-free environment with the latest innovations. The new environment is planned to become multi-sensory, the new technology will be utilized in all activities in this center. In particular, there will develop web-based control services.
Center provides support when you have difficulties related to communication or sensory impairments. The goal of learning and development services is to support children's schooling in their community schools. Forms of support are for example support periods and additional training for the professional personnel. Services are designed individually according to customers’ needs. The state of Finland will be responsible for the costs, 29,2 million euros. This will be a unique center unit in Finland, and even in Europe it isn’t necessarily easy to found much similar examples.
