Belgorod Teachers Training CollegeBelgorod Teachers Training College

Topic: «Special Education in Russia and the USA»

Students of 31 SP groupGolub O.

Medvedeva N.Teacher

Kotchkina V.Y.

Belgorod 2013

Aims and Tasks of the Project:Cognitive aspect is to increase knowledge about the specifics

of teaching in the correctional pedagogic.

Learning aspect – development of auding and speaking skills.

Developmental aspect – development of the abilities to comparison and analyze of similarities and differences in children’s education in Russia and America.

Educational aspect – to educate respect for children with special needs.

Project work category: general human topic.Type of the project: semi – structured

(defined and planned by the teacher with students).

Form of the project: computer presentation.Equipment: photos.

Contents:I. AbstractII. Introduction.III. What Is Special Education.IV. Special Education in Russia.

1. Historical Page.2. Special Education Nowadays.

V. Special Education in the USA.1. Methods of Provision.2. Modern School System.3. Colebrookdale School.

VI. Conclusion.VII. Sources.

Let me introduce myself. I am Nadejda Medvedeva, a student of the third form at Belgorod Teachers Training College. I study at the Special pedagogic department and want to work with handicapped children.

As for me, my name is Olga Golub. I’m 18 years old. I also study at Teachers Training College. Our project is devoted to the special education in Russia and the USA. We hope this research will be interesting for you.

Special

Education

in Russia

Historical pageThe education of handicapped children in our country is a part of the state educational system. A few months after the Great October Socialist Revolution, the state took upon itself the care of handicapped children.V.P. Кaschenko was the founder of special education in the post-revolutionary Russia. He was the first Director of the sanatorium-school for children with disabilities. The ideas of Kaschenko were put into practice and a unified network of special schools for abnormal children was established. By the decree of Sovnarkom of 5 June 1918 this kind of schools were included in the system of public education as a public institution. On December 10, 1919 in a decree signed by V.I. Lenin in accordance with this decision, retarded children were to be cared for and educated in the so-called auxiliary schools, where blind, deaf and physically handicapped children were to attend corresponding special schools of the People’s Commissariat of Education.

V.P. Kaschenko the founder of special education in Russia in the post-

revolutionary period.

Prior to entering school all children who have reached six years of age must have a thorough medical examination by a team of specialists at their district children polyclinics. Children who have serious defects of vision, hearing or speech are referred to a special school.

We have practice at Auxiliary Special School № 23 of Belgorod for blind, deaf and physically

handicapped children.

Deaf children at the lesson ofphonetic rhythmic at Auxiliary

Special School № 23 of Belgorod

Deaf and 2-nd division hard of hearing pupils are given the same period to acquire the curriculum of the eight-year secondary education, while the 1-st division hard of hearing children accomplish the program of the ordinary ten-year secondary school in 12 years.

Surd pedagogue Lyubushkina L.V. at the lesson with a deaf girl

Nowadays modern computer technologies help deaf children to hear the sounds of their surroundings at the non - verbal level: the noise of the street, the singing of birds, the sound of frying eggs, etc.

At present blind children and those with severely impaired eyesight receive a complete secondary education in the course of 12 years of study.

There are different types of practices for future teachers in our educational establishment such as "Physical Education”, “Communication and game", "Methodical work", "Correctional pedagogy” and others. They allow the formation of general and professional competences, which are the basis of specialist training providing assistance and support to children with disabilities.

Special Education in the USA

PS 721, a special school in Brooklyn, New York exclusively for the education of students with

special needs

“Colebrookdale Township School” in Boyertown, state Pennsylvania.

Every morning school bus brings handicapped children from the whole town. The headmaster meets his pupils before the classes.

Children with Down syndrome study with healthy class-mates. There are more than 250 000 people in the United States that have Down syndrome.

School bus is equipped by special facilities

Children with special needs at the lesson

Thanks for your attention