Professional Education of Hearing Impaired Youngsters in Estonia

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Professional Education of Hearing Impaired
Youngsters in Estonia

• Airi Püss and Raili Loit
• Estonia
• 26th October 2007 Vilnius

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Facts about Estonia

• Population 1,3 million
• Hearing impaired people 2 of population
• People using Sign Language 1500
• Number of births a year 14 000
• 9-18 hearing impaired children are diagnosed per
  year, about 8-10 of them are cohlear implantated
  (CI)

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Institutions of secondary education

• Ordinary schools 90 medium and profound
  hearing impaired students
• Special class in ordinary school - Narva Paju
  School
• (1 form in ordinary school)
• - 6 hearing impaired students
• learning in Russian

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Institutions of secondary education

• Special schools
• Tartu Hiie School (for hearing impairment and
  speech disorders)
• 115 hearing impaired children, 50 deaf

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Institutions of secondary education

• Tallinn Helens School (hearing impaired,
  visually impaired and ordinary children) 46
  hearing impaired children, some hard of
• hearing

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The future of people graduating from special
schools
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Further activities of Tallinn Helens School
graduated
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Possibilities of professional education

• 1. Universities
• 2. Ordinary professional schools
• in ordinary groups
• in special groups for handicapped people
• 3. Special professional training center The
  Vocational and Rehabilitation Center of Astangu
• 4. Short-term professional courses
• 5. Profession learning at the actual workplace

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Specialities learned

• Car repairing
• Hairdressing
• Film and video operation
• Cooking and baking
• Dental tecnician
• Sewing
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• Geography
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• Construction
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• Physical education
• Estonian language and literature
• Special education
• Arts (painting, architecture)
• Economy
• Pedagogy
• History
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• Info tecnology
• Woodworking

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Professions

• Constructor
• Sewer
• Woodworker
• Baker
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• Confectioner
• Pastor

• Architect
• ??????????
• Teacher
• ???????
• IT-specialist
• IT ??????????
• Hotel attendant/cleaner
• ???????

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Professions

• Stage technician
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• Money counting clerk
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• Assistant
• ?????????
• Shoemaker

• Cook
• ???????
• Car repair worker
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• Housekeeper
• ??????
• Handicraftsman

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Problems

• Teachers, lecturers, employers, fellow workers
  and fellow students have lack of information
  about hearing impaired people, their special
  needs and specialities
• They are afraid that they are not able to
  communicate with hearing impaired people
• They are afraid that working is dangerous for
  hearing impaired people because they dont hear

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Problems

• They dont know how easy it is to communicate
  with deaf people (lipreading, pen and paper,
  mobile phone, sending SMS to the deaf, fax, using
  e-mail etc.)
• Insufficient financing and offering of support
  services (social worker, individual assistant,
  psychologist) and not understanding the need of
  it

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Problems

• Lack of Sign Language interpreters, their
  qualification
• Project based interpreters studies
• Low payment per hour
• Lack of consistent work
• There are interpreters only in larger cities
  Tallinn, Tartu, Pärnu
• One students headmoney doesnt cover
  interpreters salary

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Problems

• Hearing impaired youth
• Have inadequate self-assessment
• Learned helplessness
• Overestimation of their capabilities
• Too high expectations
• Inadequate willingness of work, take
  responsibility

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The Vocational and Rehabilitation Center of
Astangu (VRCA)???????????????-????????????????
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General information

• The Vocational and Rehabilitation Center of
  Astangu (VRCA) - a special learning and
  rehabilitation institution for people with
  different disabilities.
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• Founded in 1995.
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General information

• The only vocational center in Estonia meant only
  for disabeled people.
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  ???????.

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Aims

• To offer handicapped people possibilities to
  gain different proffessional knowledge and skills
  as well as receive different rehabilitation
  services for the betterment of their life
  quality.
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Structure

• The Center can be devided into two parts
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• the part of rehabilitation
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• the part of vocational training
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The part of rehabilitation

• Consists of a team of different specialists,
  whos job is to
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• draw up rehebilitation plans
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• offer rehabilitation services
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The part of rehabilitation

• The team of specialists
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• doctor
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• physical therapist
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• occupational therapist
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The part of rehabilitation

• speech-language pathologist
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• special educationalist
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• psychologist
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• social worker
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The part of rehabilitation

• The rehabilitation services by the specialists
  are offered to
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• the students of the center (up to 4 hours a
  week)
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• the clients from outside.
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Rehabilitation services

• 1. Services supporting the social managing
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• social counseling
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• life managing guidance
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Rehabilitation services

• special transportation service
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• dormitory service
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• sign language interpreting service
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Rehabilitation services

• 2. Services supporting physical activity,
  working and functioning abilities
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• physical therapy
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• hydrotherapy sauna therapy
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Rehabilitation services

• occupational therapy
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• guidance in acquiring and using technical aids
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• massage
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Rehabilitation services

• 3.  Services supporting communication skills,
  socialization and learning abilities
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• service of special educationalist (correctional
  courses)
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• psychological counseling
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• musical therapy
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Rehabilitation services

• 4. Services supporting the roping into worklife
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• career planning and vocational guidance
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• counseling of the employer
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• supporting of the beginning of working
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Vocational training

• The courses of vocational training can be
  devided into 3 groups
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• adjusting courses
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• occupational courses
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• vocational courses
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Vocational training

• Adjusting courses (preparatory courses)
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• Meant to find out suitable proffesions for the
  students and prepare them for the vocational
  courses.
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• Courses are carried out in 3 target groups
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• 1. students with brain injury (15 weeks/600
  hours)
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  ??????/1400 ?????)
• 2. students who have acquired basic education
  learning by the managing curriculum (35
  weeks/1400 hours)
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  ??????????????? ???????? ????????? (35
  ??????/1400?????)

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Vocational training

• 3. students who have acquired basic education
  learning by the simplified curriculum (or those
  who have the same kind of educational needs) (35
  weeks/1400 hours)
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  ????????? (??? ? ?????? ?? ????????????????
  ???????) (35 ??????/1400 ?????)

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Vocational training

• Occupational courses (35 weeks/1400 hours)
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• The aim to provide the disabled youngsters and
  adults with the opportunity to gain vocational
  knowledge.
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Vocational training

• According to their abilities, the students of
  the courses can aquire professional skills that
  should able them to earn living individually,
  corporatively or in the form of protected work.
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• There are occupational courses for
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• carpentry
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• bakery
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• national handicrafts
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• household
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• Also introductional courses in IT (37 weeks)
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  ??????????????? (37 ??????)

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Vocational training

• Vocational courses (120 weeks/3 years)
• ????????????? ????? (120 ??????/3 ????)
• IT services
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• cabinetry/carpentry
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• national handicrafts
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Vocational training

• basis of business
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• bakery
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• household economy
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How to become a student

• The candidates must have
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  ?????????????
• basic education
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• special written suggestion of a group of
  specialist
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  ???????????? ??????

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How to become a student

• The specialists
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• evaluate the suitability and possibilities of
  the students
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• make suggestions for the possible rehabilitation
  
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How to become a student

• Those who have been suggested by the specialists
  to study in the Astangu Center, will be taken in
  according to the waiting list formed by the time
  of filling in the application for that.
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• The Center is also opened for students with
  hearing impairements, but foremost it is meant
  for those, who (besides hearing loss) have some
  additional disabilities or health problems.
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• At the moment there are studying 8 deaf students
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  ????????

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• The deaf students are studying
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• carpentry
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• bakery
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• national handicrafts
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• One is also taking the adjusting course.
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  ????????????????

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• The deaf students study together with the sign
  language interpreters. At the moment there are 2
  qualified and 2 not qualified sign language
  interpreters in the center.
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  ?????????????????. ?????? ? ?????? ???????? ???
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  ????????? ????? (??????????).

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• The students can use
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• swimming-bath
• ???????
• gymnasium
• ????????
• living-aid appartement
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• dormitory
• ????????

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Contact

• Tallinn Helens School
• 10318 Tallinn
• Ehte 7
• Tel [phone]
• Tel [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• www.helen.tln.edu.ee
• direktor_at_helen.edu.ee

• The Vocational and Rehabilitation Center of
  Astangu
• 13519 Tallinn
• Astangu 27
• Tel [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• astangu_at_astangu.ee

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• Thank you for attention!
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