the education of deaf people in greece

7/31/2019 The Education of Deaf People in Greece

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The education of deaf people in Greece has started too

late in comparison with others European countries. Thisdelay can be probably justified If we see the historical

conditions of Greece.

The disability is considered a social stigma and it caused

shame and guilt both to the person who brought it and hisfamily environment. The state machinery has focused on

the structure of general education and it was absent at

the start of Special Education (Pyrgiotakis, 1994). At the

beginning of the institutionalization of special education

we meet the private sector. Individuals establishinstitutions, organizations and associations with charitable

status, which designed to protect, care, education and

training of people with disabilities.


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After the war in Mikra Asia 1922 the American charitable

organization Near East Relief took the responsibility

for the education 10 deaf children whom family was

dead. This organization had sent Eleni Palatidou one

teacher from Mikra Asia at the well-known school ofMasaxousetis Clarck School for the deaf for special

training. After one year she was back and she was

responsible to teach these 10 deaf students.

The school of Palatidou in 1937 was melt together withthe foundation of Spiliopoulos with the 726-15-6-1937

was created the national foundation of protection

kofalalon(E.I..).From 1938 until the second civil war

the school is in its own building in Ampelokipous. Duringthe second civil war the building was obliged to turn into

a hospital until 1960. In 1960 the school returned to

Ampelokipous where it is until nowadays. The ...

covered the inefficiency of state for education in people

with special needs.


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In 1951 15 parents of deaf children from Patras aredemanding with pressure the ministry of health to create

the E.I.. a school for deaf children in Patras 1-12-1951.

The first teacher of deaf people in Patras was AnnaIordanidou from Smirni who has studied before in Paris.

Anna Iordanidou has trained Dionisia Xanthaki. Dionisia

was the first director in the school of Patras. In 1965

Xanthaki founded the first professional school for deafgirls at Aroi an area of Patras. In the same building was a

boarding-school for the students of Patras. In 1969 in this

school there were 150 students from southwest Greece

and Veroia-Kozani-Grevenna-Thessaloniki-Thraki-Crete.

Only in Athens Thessaloniki Patras Crete Volos Serres

could somebody found schools of E.I... The school

program was and day and afternoon with a break for

lunch


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At first the lesson speech of therapy

was done by the teacher


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In December 1999 was the relocation of our

school facilities owned by the National

Institute for Deaf Bozaitika in Patras.


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The 1983 was a new start for the and generallyfor the education of the deaf people the change of behavioursto the deaf people.

This period Venetta Lampropoulou is hired as the scientific director of the:She trains the new teachers with the newest educational and scientificmethods.She creates new programs for all of the classes in primary school.The first conferences for the education of deaf children are being held.

The interdiction of the GSL is stopped at schools for deaf people.For the first time it is said that the GSL is equal to oral languages she hasstructure and grammar.In 1986 the has been renamed in national institute ofdeaf()kindergarden for babies between 0-4 ages. In Athens Thessaloniki andPatras. In this program and parents participate. One of the first of our children

that had participated in this program is working nowadays in our school as ateacher.


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After many years of demands of the teachers ofwho were askingthe schools of the foundation to belong to the ministry of educationfinally in 10-10-2005 with the law1397 the schools of EIK belong to theministry of education and they are being in the same place as before.As a result we have in Patras the special primary school for deaf,

hearing - impired children which has 3 teachers, one assistant ofeducation, psychologist, social worker, teacher for gymnastics,musician and a speech of therapy.


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1968 the creation of Deaf People in Greece.()

273/4-12-1975 the creation of classes integration and

the further education of teachers in special education in

Maraslio school.

56/15-3-1976 the office of the special education of

ministry of education.

202/1979 the law for the professional restoration of

people with disability.


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287/20-1-1982 the ministry of education(YPEPTH) founds the first schools

for deaf people. At the same time the schools of EIK continued to work.

The law 1566/1985 which concerns the education of people with

disability was voted. With the help of this law the ministry of education

founds special classes in the commons schools.

Since 1988 for the first time in the paidagogical department of university

in Patras are being taught classes for the education for the deaf people

from professor Venetta Lampropoulou. It is the only one department of

university in Greece that gives the possibility of doing a master and a

doctora in the education of deaf people etc.

206/3-9-98 the people with special needs are passing into university

without exams the 3% of the passing students.

The law 2817 - 78/14-3-2000 substitute the previous law. In this law for

the first time is stated that the language of the deaf people is the Greek

Sign Language. This has given the right in deaf people to have a

translator.

In this law it is mentioned the foundation and the creation of KDAY

central diagnosis and support. In KDAY the students that are being sent

are passing some tests and they are being proposed the type of school

that are going to study in with the permition of their parents.

Th TV h l i d b l t h i th GSL V f


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The TV channels are required by law to have news in the GSL. Very few

local TV stations have to news in Greek Sign Language. The evening's

program area of the state television from 19.00m.m to 22.00 is

designed so that they can attend the Deaf (eg Greek movies with

subtitles, interpreter in the news).

Created new special education staff skills (sign language interpreters,special mobility etc)

Ensure the provision of modern teaching media technology for people

with disabilities (machines for the blind audio books, dictionaries of

sign language, Braille machines, etc.)

Recognized sign language as an official language of the deaf andestablished special education department at the Pedagogical Institute

for scientific research all aspects

of special education

JUNE 2012: A knowledge of GSL

is necessary condition by teacherswho wish to work in

Special Schools for the Deaf


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In September of 2007 we organized with the

department of the education for the deaf

children of the university of Patras a greek

conference with global participation in the

university of Patras with subject The deafpeople in greek reality. We have to mention

that for the first time a special school

organizes with the university a conference.

The method that is being used in the schools

for the deaf children in official hasnt beenset yet. We could say that in general is used

the oral language with signs. The majority of

parents dont want the GSL because there

are afraid that their children wont learn how

to speak. That is a reason why they dontdecide their children to be taught in the

special school. Moreover the label ofspecial

school is another disadvantage.


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In our school are doing their practice the students that

havent yet obtained their certificate from university of

Patras (teachers) and some students that are doing their

master. Furthermore some students of speech of therapyare doing their practice to ATEI of Patras


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In June 2011 our school was awarded by the Minister of

Education for his work in the auditorium of the Ministry of

Education


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The Special School respects his students and takes responsibility to know theirculture, to give them their culture to get to know what identity is and so proud of

it.


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