The awareness level for people with learning difficulties is rising, the Skill Compass project has laid a profound basis for work with these conditions.
The presentation of 10 digital tools for people with learning difficulties demonstrated a need for a more serious approach toward creating resources for the inclusion of individuals with such conditions. As a result of the project activities, the awareness status is on the rise.
Five webinars have been conducted to present 10 tools for the support of individuals with learning differences and their teachers, career councilors and youth professionals. The implementation of these activities is part of the Skill Compass project: Empowering Youth with Learning Differences through Career Guidance Tools. The created tools cover understanding Dyslexia and other conditions, career counseling and concrete tools and strategies for career guidance.
What was the feedback from the participants in the webinars? Their comments were positive and led to the need for intensified work in the field to raise the awareness level in institutions, but also with the wider public. From the received feedback the following conclusion can be taken out – the project started/encouraged a process for raising awareness, on the one hand, and laid the basis for work with people with learning differences, on the other hand.
On top of the feedback, the webinar participants call for focus on these conditions starting at the earliest age, while, at the same time, overcoming stigma for the differences. However, the video series What if…? depicts that persons from the earliest stage of development to old age face these conditions, so whenever we speak about Dyslexia, Dyscalculia, ADHD and others we refer to different age groups.
All of this confirms once again that the Skill Compass project created a solid base for an intensified work educators, teachers and youth professionals. The expected results of the project are being achieved, however, for the bigger picture, all of the stakeholders need to do their part.
The available resources are, in fact, an asset and support for educators in the work with young people who struggle with Dyslexia, ADHD, Dyscalculia, Dyspraxia, and Dysgraphia. The tools not only assist these professionals in their work, but also the users in need themselves to work and structure their career path.
The Skill Compass is an ongoing project and the project partners Creative House, Dyslexia Association Einstein and their associates from Bulgaria(BULAIR 10A), Serbia(Udruzenje Gradjana BUM) and the Czech Republic(Mission: Reconnect) continue with upgraded project activities to deepen the support of career counselors, teachers and youth professionals, and youth in need themselves.
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