Teaching Foreign Languages to Children with Specific Learning Disorders: Challenges and Effective Teaching Strategies
The teaching of foreign languages to children with Specific Learning Disorders (SLD) presents a series of peculiar challenges that require a targeted and innovative teaching approach. The recent focus group conducted by Omnis at the Lingua Più center as part of the Focus project, highlighted these difficulties and proposed effective strategies to overcome them, offering […]
Unlocking Potential: How Embracing Neurodiversity Empowers Learners
The human brain is as diverse as humanity itself. This core principle underlies the neurodiversity paradigm, a growing movement that challenges the mainstream views of neurological differences. Traditionally, conditions like autism, ADHD, and dyslexia have been seen only from a medical perspective, as disorders requiring intervention. The neurodiversity paradigm flips this script. It argues that […]
Collaborative Learning and Digital Tools in Inclusive Education
There is a growing recognition of the importance of collaboration between different professionals in ensuring pupils’ success, particularly in the field of inclusive education. This collaboration is particularly relevant for children with special educational needs, who may require additional support in a broad range of areas. Working together, special education teachers, occupational therapists, speech and […]
Turning the FOCUS to inclusion
In December 2017, the EU adopted the European Pillar of Social Rights, a document highlighting the importance of social, educational and cultural dimensions of EU policies for building a common European future for a fair, inclusive and full of opportunities Europe. One of the central themes was the right to quality, inclusive education where everyone […]
Our Project Kicked Off in Ptuj, Slovenia
Our FOCUS project had its kick-off meeting in November 2023, in Ptuj, Slovenia. It was a two-day meeting, organized by the Public University of Ptuj, and took place on the 27th-28th of November. Representatives from all project partners from six European countries (Slovenia, Cyprus, Italy, Spain, Lithuania, Greece) were in attendance in order to discuss […]
