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 Our children, too, have the right to be considered human beings, have the same rights as your children, born healthy!

 THE SCHOOL OF  CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL SOUL

  ...  your baby too could be here ..., you're lucky!

  ” We  ask a smile, a warm flash, a hand! "

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 INITIAL DRAFT: Teacher:  Elena Gluga

In the Salamanca Declaration, World Conference of Special Education, adopted by representatives of 88 governments and 25 international organizations, are clearly stipulates the following amendments:

 -  every child has the fundamental right to education of every child  should be given an opportunity to reach and to be able to maintain an acceptable level of learning;

 -  each child possesses characteristics, interests, aptitudes and learning needs of their own;

 -  educational systems design and implementation of educational programs must take into account the great diversity of characteristics and needs of children included in the educational program;

Each child is understood as an active participant in learning and teaching so that each brings   itself in the complex process of learning and development experience, style of learning, a social model, a specific interaction, a personal rhythm, a kind of a cultural context to which they belong. In sum, social integration is prepared and conditioned of school integration.  We  have to provide services to children with special disabilities  in order to develop harmoniously in its company. Looking tough educational strategies, teaching techniques, methods of socialization of children with disabilities  I have found a method that has proved useful for children with disabilities and placing it  in Romania could be of real use in special situations of these children.

 METHOD TOMATIS

It all started when the famous physician Alfred Tomatis, born in France has discovered this  ingenious method, and in 1980 began to be applied in special schools in that country and the results amazing for many children appeared. This method was applied  40 years ago by Professor Alfred Tomatis, audiologist and psycho-physiology, in disorders of hearing and language, this method is originally based on the relationship between ear and voice, and by extension, between listening and communication: it is a pedagogy of listening that allows subject to identify the desire to communicate, learning to use better the hearing before it.

 "Many  children who  do not know to read or write, or calculate correctly have  phonemic hearing difficulties. "Being the first sensorial  organ developed by  foetus, the ear is the true gateway to the universe in us. It acts as a dynamo of the brain and nervous system . Alfred Tomatis has shown that a hearing is not good enough to reproduce the sounds. In truth most of the disorders of language, spoken or written, are not related to hearing problems, but those listening, it is possible to hear well without being able to decode sounds perceived. In other words, the difficulties of perceiving sounds weights in training provision, and therefore difficulties to reproduce verbal. Consequently, reading is poor, and here's the problem, as well as those concentration and storage, communication beings affected.

At 18, Gérard Depardieu wanted to become a comediant but he suffered the terrible difficulties of language and elocution. In his biography  written by Paul Chutkov in 1994, Gérard Depardieu said: "Alfred Tomatis revealed me the word art.  Before Tomatis , I never got to complete my phrases. He is the one who allowed me to have a space continuity in my mind, a spirit of synthesis ... It was the second birth ... "All the  centers that have chosen to apply the Tomatis Method have  been equipped with an electronic device built and named by  Tomatis The Electronic  Ear  which  enables the  reeducation of ear  in the sense of giving back the  real function, that of listening. Tomatis Method has been rigorously tested and has proven to be very effective in the treatment of learning difficulties and behavioral problems.

In 1999, Tim Gilmor published a meta-analysis based on 5 (five) studies  which involved 231 children. The studies were  published in the Journal of International Listening. A meta-analysis is a statistical tool very powerful and is widely used in medical research.  This study showed that the Tomatis method improves   foarte mult: very much:

 - Language skills

 - Mental and motor skills

 - Social , cognitive skills,

 This meta-analysis was based on   following studies:

- Dr. - Dr. Tim Gilmor ,  who studied 102 children at the Tomatis Center in Toronto

- Dr. of the University of Windsor, Ontario, who studied   25 children with learning difficulties aged between 9 and 14 years, aiming them over a period of one year.

- Dr. of the University of  North  Shore, who studied 26 preschool children with speech difficulties over a period of  five months.

- Dr.  Institute of Ontario, which followed the progress of 32 children aged between 8 and 12 years.

Since January 2006, thousands of Polish children with learning difficulties of all kinds have access to the Tomatis method, the psycho-pedagogy 200 centers spread all over the country. Polish Ministry of National Education has decided to equip itself  the centers with  an important tool (Tomatis method) designed to contribute to the integration of school pupils who suffers from  difficulties of learning, and even behavioral disorders.

Wanting to fight in a manner effective against school failure,  important  factors  chosed  Tomatis method, after it was recognized worldwide and experienced with successfully for many years in the Institute of Physiology and Pathology of the ear from Warsaw.

Also, Tomatis Center in Toronto - Canada has studied the results  of Listening  Therapy   to over 400 children and teenagers. They were diagnosed with severe learning problems.  Treatment outcome was communicated by parents. In this test, 95% of parents responded to questions and specialists have to communicate how the program had helped children.  The parents saw improvements as:

ABILITIES                                                                                                        Percent improvement

 Great communication skills                                                                                                                                          89%

Improving attention                                                                                                                                            86%

Frustration level has decreased                                                                                                                                    80%

Improving reading                                                                                                                                              85%

Speech quality has improved                                                                                                                             74%

Improving Memory                                                                                                                                          73%

Improving Pronunciation                                                                                                                                       69%

 Showed more maturity                                                                                                                                 84%

During the early `80, The Tomatis  method began to be used in several schools in France with funds allocated by the Ministry of Education.Children are selected according to the severity of school difficulties. During this program the results were surprisingly good and parents have asked Tomatis Program to continue year after year.Parents have seen positive and lasting  changes in the life of their children and have made every effort to continue this program.

In 1983, De Bruto - South Africa, led a research   to see the effectiveness of this method   people with mental delay. 30 people aged between   4 and 14 years who were diagnosed  with severe mental delay, but with the ability to work were divided into 3 groups: Group A: hearing stimulation (Tomatis method) and a program of incentives senzo-motor; Group B: stimulation through music (without the Tomatis Method ) and the same incentive program senzo-motor; Group C: no treatment. The results showed that both groups (A, B) showed an increase in mental age, but the increase in group A which used the Tomatis method was  bigger. No changes in group C.

Researches  done  by Dr. Deborah Swain showed that the Tomatis Method significantly improved the ability of hearing. For more information go to  www.theswaincenter.com.

Tomatis Method can help people who have ADHD.  "We need to  educate the  ear to listen, to perceive the sounds properly," said Dr Jean Ayres. Right ear processes information more quickly because transmitting information directly to the left brain, which specializes in speech processing. So, left ear transmits information to the right side of the brain which can  not process speech.

DISLEXIA. Made clinical experiences have shown that most people that have this disease will be able to read, write and learn better by  educated  the ears.

Autism.  Therapy using Tomatis listening can improve the life of many people diagnosed  with autism.

SWAIN CENTER CALIFORNIA-SANTA ROSA. Dr.Deborah Swain opened in 1985 in Santa Rosa a center for children with disabilities and uses the Tomatis method. Besides this method, she  applies in the center The  Sound Therapy. This therapy is used with a  More information www.Samonas.com.

Another Interactive Metronome therapy is therapy that is used with a device, a device that repeats longer sound like a clock.  More  information www.interactivemetronom.com. The method can improve attention,  motric   coordination , reading,.

Another method is - EAROBICS. This method offers solutions to improve the process of learning, listening, reading, writing.

Swain Center is  specialized in helping  children aged between 12 and 18 years.  On the  center  site  we find results with children who have learning difficulties, autism, retardation.

OUR MISSION: To help  them  learn nice  and better! Let’s learn them by playing ! A special place for children with special needs!

Our desire of many parents  is to have a school where they work with new methods which gave results outside the country and certainly will help children in Romania.  We want to give these children a special space to be improved with technology to help them to develop skills that they have better and more beautiful in them professionals, specialists who provide these children the security that what they do is good and should not even give up to  develop  their skills.

 We need to create and  to equip  A  CABINET OF LOGOTHERAPY, A CABINET of Psychotherapy,  A CABINET OF ARTHERAPY, A CABINET OF MUSIC,   A BALLROOM.

 Related activities may include: pottery, modeling, painting, swimming and horse riding.  It has proved scientifically that riding is very helpful to children with disabilities and gave spectacular results in autism, speech difficulties.

Team of specialists needed: neurological, pediatrician  doctors, psychologists,  social assistant, physical education teachers, instructors of swimming, horse riding, craftsmen, painters, artists.

Operating period: all year, summer holidays are exclusively devoted to  socialize , organizing trips, camps, expeditions.

Maybe you will ask what she/he  has to say such a child? You know how many can hide behind uncoordinated walking, a wide smile, a stare look ? We want  them to be more self-confidently and to discover what   au ei mai bun. they have the  best in them .  We  have to develop social skills,  to make them communicate because they have a lot to say, but we do not know how to translate in  sounds of soul and magic what emit these children.