Equal Opportunities

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Equal Opportunities

• How to entail more opportunities for disabled
  children in relationship contact with other
  kids

Els Vanoverberghe, Stephanie Stans, Annelies
Vandenberghe, Joke Vervaeke
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Stephanie
Annelies
We are..
Els
Joke
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• We live..
• in Belgium

Our school.. KHBO, situated in Bruges
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Introduction

• Discussion How to integrate children
• with a disability?
• more equal opportunities ways of integration
• Target group Playground in Roeselare
• Experience Youth club

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Overview

• Project equal chances
• What?
• Integration ? inclusion
• Why?
• Aims?
• Methods?
• Organisations?
• Why OTs?
• Risks?
• Visions for the future?
• Case-studie
• Conclusion

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Project equal chances
What?

• Main aim of our project
• Let children with a disability ones without a
  disability play together in a fixed setting the
  playground

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Project equal chances
What Two activities

• Seatickles

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Project equal chances
What Two activities
Decorate wooden frames with all kinds of
materials. ? rope, paints mosaic stones
Watching the other children they delivered
beautiful pieces of art...
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Project equal chances
What Two activities

• Not for softies

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Project equal chances
What Two activities

• How to use make-up to make it look
• like real-life wounds.

One to one monitoring was needed to keep things
in control, but mostly the children helped each
other...
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Project equal chances
integration ? inclusion

• Integration
• ..adapt to the given circumstances, the norms
  values applied on the playground..
• Inclusion
• ..including others into your given situation
  adapting certain things to their ways..

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Project equal chances
integration ? inclusion

• Our situation one-on-one support
• In a context of inclusion the childrens
  actions also involved taking control, making
  choices, initiative real participation..
• Involving brothers, sisters other relatives in
  our activities became an inevitable
  constructive part of our project..

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Project equal chances
Why?

• provide an environment in which disabled people
  can preserve form their own identity
• ? extra opportunities
• play have fun with people who respect their
  needs can cope with their behaviour
• No person is identical it is important that each
  child be taught how to deal with several
  personalities
• both groups can learn from each other

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Project equal chances
Aims?

• make friends new contacts based on trust
  reliability
• insight on how disabled kids interact with others
  
• create a firm base more chances for the future
• a more positive self-esteem -awareness
• emancipation responsibility
• Quality Of Life
• Decreasing the gap between handicapped persons
  others

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Project equal chances
Methods?

• Two vacation care programs
• Babbeloe
• a specially designed playground for disabled
  kids their siblings ? doubts about the
  safety precautions
• Grabbelpas
• an ordinary playground ? make adjustments
  changes create more suitable safe
  surroundings for both groups

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Project equal chances
More about the playgrounds

• Babbeloe
• What?
• Disabled children generally feel better safer
  in a small care centre where the infrastructure
  is adapted to their needs where they can play
  at their own pace with a fixed team of monitors
• Target group?
• disability age 5-12 Roeselare-Izegem-Tielt

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Project equal chances
More about the playgrounds

• Grabbelpas
• a vacation care program for children without
  limitations
• some days they take trips to places like
  amusement parks movie theatres, other days they
  stay at the playground play games

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Project equal chances
Why OTs?

• It is important because
• As an occupational therapist you have to be able
  to
• handle conform a persons wishes, doing so by
  taking a
• combination of each individual separately
• environmental performance components into
  consideration
• Correct results kids with without a handicap

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Project equal chances
Risks?

• Lack of monitors for the one-on-one support
• Small scale project ? the beginning of a bigger
  plan
• Do all monitors have enough experience
  knowledge to support our project? ? if not, give
  them information
• The complete ignorance people have towards these
  children
• Not enough means or grants from the government
• Conflicts raws

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Project equal chances
Visions for the future?

• Belgium does not have many of these joined
  playgrounds.
• ? carry out the results of our small scale
  project warm peoples hearts to the idea of
  such playgrounds.

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Case-studie

• Extra information on some of the children
• ? This will give you an idea of how we
  experienced this joined venture what we
  think are the positive effects of such an
  experiment
• The children (fictive names)
• Amy Type 2 (moderate mental handicap)
  hyperkinetic
• Nick Dyspraxie (minimal brain dysfunction)
  dyslexie dyscalculie ADHD

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Case-studie
Case 1 Amy
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Case studie
Case 2 Nick
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Conclusion

• Our experiment was successfully conducted
• ? integration inclusion of all children
• We saw some changes of behaviour in the children
  with a disability
• ? accept these people with their limitations
• It is remarkable how much the disabled children
  picked up from other children
• Through our project we created more equal
  opportunities for both groups!

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Literature
- Gielen, G. (2003) Leidt inclusie tot
uitsluiting? Opinie inclusie. Sociaal 2003
7-10 - Hendriks, R. (2000) Autistisch
gezelschap Een empirisch-filosofisch onderzoek
naar het gezamelijk bestaan van autistische en
niet-autistische personen. SwetsZeitlinger
Lisse - Sorée,V. (1999) Van een geïntegreerde
naar een inclusieve speelpleinwerking... een
utopie Verschillende maatjes, beste maatjes.
Sociaal 1999 13-15 -Wuyts, B. (1996) Anders
maar niet minder, leven met een handicap.
Davidsfonds Leuven - Information from Babbeloe
Roeselare Grabbelpas Tielt - interview with
parents monies at the Grabbelpas playground
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Thank you for your attention..