LECCE – Emiliano (real name), a student in Parabita province of Lecce, is suffering from spastic quadriplegia, unable to speak, communicating through the movement of the eyelids. With the help of an eyepiece pointer, however, it is able to translate the movements into speech, both through the letters through boxes with words already formed. Francesca, a student from Cursi, suffers from Reth syndrome that caused severe mental retardation, but thanks to interventions of ‘alternative augmentative communication’ the consultant looking after you managed to get it to communicate, to make out of her language. These are just two of the six stories of life that is following currently the Territorial Support Center of the province of Lecce (Cts, www.ctslecce.gov.it), already active for ten years with the aim to facilitate access to technology by disabled students in schools of all levels, starting from kindergarten. A great job, challenging, but unfortunately still quiet, largely unknown to date precisely the families of students who would need support. Born on the basis of the project “New technologies and disability,” the Ministry of Education, thanks to the 2012 directive on special educational needs now fall within range of Cts all problems connected with the law 170 of 2010 and therefore the disturbances specific learning, as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, social disadvantages, language and culture.
Thanks to the work of specialists who provide their skills, the Cts of the province of Lecce, which depends on ‘ regional education office of Apulia, offers consultancy, projects and services to local schools (about one hundred and eighty institutes) case by case basis as they arise, proposing specific aids and sofware to use various disabilities, building a path tailored to the needs of each student and to play together with families. Among the counters that the Centre has no one on the ‘augmentative alternative communication’: “it’s about changing the way you send a message, according to alternative channels to language, when there are difficulties in this sense – explains Maurizio Molendini , head of CTS, support teacher role in the area of science subjects at the technical Institute of Lecce Grazia Deledda, the seat of the Centre -. It is to first understand the level of communication of a person, then to strengthen in an alternative way other channels, including by age, from the concrete things to abstract concepts “. The specialist recommends Center aids, which must still be approved by the local health authorities. The ‘dynamic communicators’ for example, are similar to tablet, touch screen software with specific grids to help find a way of communication, to be used at school and at home. It ‘also active a door on the specific learning disorders, with a dedicated committee in particular to dyslexia, and also in this case are usable specific software with voice synthesis, maps, prepared kits that meet difficulties. Each case is followed through regular meetings with teachers and students of the family.
“Just the Puglia Region will issue the directive we will be ready to go even with the door on autism – precise Molendini – whose activation is provided by the Ministry of Education throughout Italy now that ended the experiment in only some regions. Here in Puglia will be trained about ninety teachers of information Cts of reference, which will be the coordinator, will go where there is need. teachers must through the branches, managing the dynamics of autism spectrum disorders, clearly in touch with families, schools, local authorities, for a business that revolves around the students. ” A short in the Cts of Lecce is also provided training for teachers on the topic of bullying, in collaboration with the Postal Police and associations. The territory – reads its homepage of the Center portal – is on the network, “but the main problem is just that – says the manager Cts -. Do not always approved protocols are then activated in fact, interventions are likely to remain so isolated kilter collaborations of local health services, municipalities and all the other actors. The result, then, is that few requests we receive, not so much because the problems there are not, but because the same families do not know who might have a support more”. (Sm)
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