INclusion means NO EXclusion - Now!

ABA Training fuer Profis, der optimale Umgang mit autistischen Kindern !

2010-03-16T14:48:00.000-07:00

http://www.aba-parents.ch/aktuelles.html

Erklärung der TeilnehmerInnen des Kongresses Eine Schule für Alle vom 12. bis 14.03.2010

2010-03-14T15:16:00.001-07:00

http://www.nrw-eineschule.de/artikel/eine-schule-fuer-alle-vielfalt-leben

United Nations: Nordrhein-Westfalens Schulpolitik gerügt

2010-03-14T01:45:00.001-08:00

Köln (kobinet) Der UN-Sonderberichterstatter für das Recht auf Bildung, Professor Vernor Muñoz Villalobos hat der Schulpolitik des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen eine Rüge erteilt. "Wir beobachten, dass Inklusion als Ziel bezeichnet wird", sagte Muñoz auf dem Kongress "Eine Schule für Alle. Vielfalt leben!", der heute in Köln mit einem öffentlichen Programm zu Ende geht. Er sehe jedoch eine Asymmetrie zwischen Worten und Umsetzung.

Was der UN-Berichterstatter diplomatisch ausdrückte, so die Veranstalter, heißt auf gut deutsch: Nordrhein-Westfalen kommt seiner Verpflichtung zum Aufbau eines inklusiven Bildungssystems nicht nach. Allen Plänen, das individuelle Recht jedes Kindes auf Inklusion zu bestreiten oder auf den St. Nimmerleins-Tag zu verschieben, erteilte Muñoz eine klare Absage. "Das individuelle Recht auf Inklusion ist ein unveräußerliches Menschenrecht." Auch mit anderen schulpolitischen Winkelzügen, die UN-Konvention zu umgehen, räumte Muñoz auf. Die besonders in Bayern und Baden-Württemberg von den Regierungen propagierten Außen- und Kooperationsklassen hätten mit Inklusion nichts zu tun. Verlangt sei gemeinsames Lernen. Inklusion sei nicht nur die Angelegenheit von Kindertagesstätten und Hauptschulen, sondern auch das Gymnasium sei in der Pflicht.

Versuchen, das Sonderschulsystem so, wie es ist, zu erhalten, erteilte Muñoz eine Absage: "Das separierte Bildungssystem für Kinder und Jugendliche mit Behinderung muss überwunden werden." Überhaupt sei der Begriff der Bildung im Lichte der Menschenrechte zu überdenken. "Bildung ist kein Wettbewerb", mahnte Munoz, und auch nicht dafür da, die Probleme der Arbeitgeber zu lösen, sondern die Würde des Menschen voranzutreiben und zu schützen. Die Bundesländer seien nun in der Pflicht, Inklusionspläne für den kurz- und mittelfristigen Umbau des Schulsystems zu einem inklusiven Bildungssystem vorzulegen. sch

Children with disabilities have a RIGHT for needed school adaptations and school an OBLIGATION to provide them !!

2010-03-13T16:23:00.001-08:00

compare with article 24 UN CRPD:

"(c) Reasonable accommodation of the individual's requirements is provided;

(d) Persons with disabilities receive the support required, within the general education system, to facilitate their effective education;

(e) Effective individualized support measures are provided in environments that maximize academic and social development, consistent with the goal of full inclusion.

3. States Parties shall enable persons with disabilities to learn life and social development skills to facilitate their full and equal participation in education and as members of the community. To this end, States Parties shall take appropriate measures, including:

(a) Facilitating the learning of Braille, alternative script, augmentative and alternative modes, means and formats of communication and orientation and mobility skills, and facilitating peer support and mentoring;

(b) Facilitating the learning of sign language and the promotion of the linguistic identity of the deaf community;

(c) Ensuring that the education of persons, and in particular children, who are blind, deaf or deafblind, is delivered in the most appropriate languages and modes and means of communication for the individual, and in environments which maximize academic and social development.

And people with disabilities means ALL kind of disabilities !

United Nations song !

2010-03-13T08:16:00.001-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqZ8UZ_Gqm8

Jakob Muth-Preis für inklusive Schule

2010-03-11T23:22:00.000-08:00

http://www.kobinet-nachrichten.org/cipp/kobinet/custom/pub/content,lang,1/oid,23394/ticket,g_a_s_t

Bildungskongress „Inklusion (er)leben“

2010-03-10T10:11:00.001-08:00

Die 130 Anmeldungen aus den verschiedensten Regionen Deutschlands zu unserem Bildungskongress „Inklusion (er)leben" am 13. März zeigen, dass das Thema Inklusion in der Mitte der Bildungsdiskussion
angekommen ist und diese die nächsten Jahre bestimmen wird. Das zeigt auch das am vergangenen Wochenende in Freiburg gegründete Bündnis für eine inklusive Schule für alle, an dem Bildung neu den- ken von Anfang als Mitinitiator maßgeblich beteiligt war.

Unser Kongress ist ein weiterer Schritt in Richtung einer inklusiven Schule in Freiburg. Er lässt Praktiker aus dem öffentlichen Schulsystem zu Wort kommen, die bereits Erfahrungen mit Modellprojekten ge- macht haben. Dadurch bietet er die einzigartige Möglichkeit, diese vereinzelten Projekte zusammenzu- führen und einem breiten Publikum zugänglich zu machen.

Den Kongress eröffnet mit einem Impulsreferat Otto Herz, renommierter Reformpädagoge und Mitbe- gründer der Bielefelder Laborschule. In fünf Foren (s. beigelegten Flyer), die jeweils vormittags und nachmittags stattfinden, zeigen Referenten aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln anhand praktischer Beispiele und Erfahrungsberichte Wege hin zur Inklusion an Regelschulen auf.

An der abschließenden Podiumsdiskussion um 16.00 Uhr nehmen teil (alphabetische Reihenfolge):

Christoph Bayer, MdL, jugendpolitischer Sprecher der SPD Landtagsfraktion
Jürgen Langer, Vorstandsmitglied Landeselternbeirat Baden-Württemberg
Bärbl Mielich, MdL, Fraktionsvorsitzende der Grünen Kreistagsfraktion Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald, Mitglied im Petitionsausschuss Baden-Württemberg
Gudrun Nack, Vorsitzende und Mitglied des Elternbeirats (bis 2009) der Staudinger-Gesamtschule
Dr. Sylvie Nantcha, Sprecherin für Schule und Weiterbildung der CDU-Fraktion Freiburg, Mitglied des CDU-Landesvorstands Baden-Württemberg
Prof. Günter Rausch, Dozent für Sozialmanagement Evang. Hochschule Freiburg
Gerda Stuchlik, Bürgermeisterin für Schulen, Sport und Umwelt der Stadt Freiburg

Wir laden Sie herzlich zu unserem Kongress ein. Nutzen Sie die Gelegenheit, Ihre Seher, Hörer und Le- ser an diesem interessanten Erfahrungsaustausch teilhaben zu lassen.

Quelle: http://www.hwelt.de/c/content/view/5583/1/

UN CRPD : Experts needed !

2010-03-09T03:42:00.000-08:00

Inclusion Europe is currently contracting national experts of all EU Member States to work on a new project which will assess the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) for children with intellectual disabilities.
In order to conduct research throughout the 27 Member States of the EU concerning the implementation of the CRC from the perspective of children with intellectual disabilities, Inclusion Europe is looking for one national expert of each Member State.National Experts will be expected to conduct research based on a developed tool. They will receive training on how to use this tool at a training session in Prague.

The National Experts will be asked to produce a short national report in their language which will later be translated into English to be released together with a European Comparative Report at the European Conference in Brussels.The report will focus on the following areas:

1. Inclusive education

2. The family and de-institutionalization

3. Health care

4. The promotion and participation of children

5. Abuse

The main partners in the project are Inclusion Europe, Eurochild and the Faculty of Education at Charles University in Prague .The outcome of the project is to empower children with an intellectual disability as well as disability NGOs at national and European level to lobby for higher impact of the CRC and to better combat all forms of violence and discrimination against children with intellectual disabilities.Applicants are invited to submit their CV and motivation letter in English before 29 March 2010 to the following email address: k.ward(at)inclusion-europe.org.
Find out more about the project and regular updates on its progress on the newly launched project website:

http://www.childrights4all.eu/

Greek Inclusion group: please support!

2010-03-09T03:23:00.000-08:00

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&gid=172583000183

Einladung in die Disability Intergroup

2010-03-08T04:07:00.001-08:00

Der Praesident der Disability Intergroup Adam KOSA hat meine Frau und mich fuer den 23. Maerz 2010 in den Behindertenausschuss des Europaeischen Parlamentes (Disability Intergroup) eingeladen, damit wir dort die Benachteiligung von Familien mit behinderten Kindern durch Exklusionen der Europaeischen Schule naeher erlaeutern koennen und die Abgeordneten hierfuer eine Loesung finden koennen.

Chase the Hope for Autism - Please Vote on Facebook!

2010-03-07T14:13:00.000-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzDQyKgJYeo

WDR Fernsehen: Ein Platz für Paula - Behinderte Kinder auf Schulsuche

2010-03-07T07:01:00.001-08:00

http://www.wdr.de/tv/tag7/sendungsbeitraege/2010/0307/ein_platz_fuer_paula.jsp?sdatum=2010-3-7

Gerhard Lichtenauer, Oesterreich: "Verweigerung schulischer Inklusion behinderter Menschen ist ein Verstoß gegen Artikel 1 der Allgemeinen Menschenrechte, gegen Artikel 24 der UN-Behindertenrechtskonvention

2010-03-07T02:35:00.001-08:00

sowie Artikel 7 der Bundesverfassung Oesterreichs sowie Artikel 3 Grundgesetz (Deutschland)

Panayiotis Cannelopoulos: "but there are always limits in human discriminations who need fast to be changed ..."

2010-03-06T10:37:00.001-08:00

To separate handicaped children from "nature" , is a myth of Greek origin , to hide the throuth about life ...The Spartans though , used to make money so heavy , that none was able to lift them up ...If that is so , then continue to make healthy people to work for those you chose to consider as "non -existing" .Remember only that the man who took Newton's desk in teaching physics , Higgins , has proven than there are no limits in space through the black whole , but there are always limits in human discriminations who need fast to be changed ...

Schreiben an Praesident BUZEK

2010-03-05T04:25:00.001-08:00

Sehr geehrter Herr Praesident BUZEK,

die Europaeische Schule ist noch immer nicht bereit meinen Sohn wiederaufzunehmen - hat entsprechend erforderliche Massnahmen bisher nicht getroffen - wodurch meine Familie und ich unveraendert stark diskriminiert werden, lediglich weil mein Sohn behindert ist.

Ich moechte Sie herzlich bitten persoenlich zu intervenieren und die Europaeische Schule aufzufordern endlich das Notwendige zu unternehmen, um behindertengerecht, und das heisst selbstverstaendlich fuer ALLE Formen der Behinderungen, zu werden, wozu sie mehrfach vom Europaeischen Parlament aufgefordert worden ist und was im Artikel 24 UN BRK ebenfalls verbrieft ist.

Es ist nicht zu rechtfertigen, dass Mitarbeiter der Europaeischen Institutionen durch diesen dauerhaften Mangelzustand massiv in der Ausfuehrung Ihrer Aufgaben behindert werden, nur weil ihre Kinder behindert sind !

Fuer Ihren Einsatz in dieser Sache danke ich Ihnen recht herzlich vorab und wuensche Ihnen stets Erfolg bei all Ihren Taetigkeiten !

Beste Gruesse

Wasilios Katsioulis

Letter to the European School

2010-03-05T03:48:00.001-08:00

Dear (European School),

i want to thank you for your efforts in regard of my petition and the changes you made in regard of your SEN Policy in December 2009 because of Parliaments decision dated Dec 17th, 2009 to provide access to ALL children with disabilities (= inclusive education analogue to Article 24 UN CRPD)

Please allow me to aware that also with these new measured the board of governors took in december 2009 the European school remains exclusive for children with severe disabilities, like my son Lucas. Why?

The reason for this fact is not only the lack in necessary disability adaptations (like ABA)

but also the lack in different learning models and structures within the European School, as they are necessary to empower children with severe disabilities - like autism - to follow schooling and to include them socially into the European Schools ("Inclusion of disabled people into the society") and to avoid discriminations as they were adressed in my petition.

Please allow me to express a short formular, what inclusion of children with disabilities means:

"Inclusive education can not mean exclusively Inclusive Education within "mainstream schooling". Such an inclusion would be EXclusive and not INClusive. We need more schools with individual aproaches, its not only a question to provide disability adaptations like assistants or ABA it is also a question of the right learning material and program !"

This proposal will be discussed in different inclusion conferences wich follow in short-term.

As you may now, my family gots seperated since january 2010 because the European School were unable to provide the right and necessary measures for my son Lucas because of his disability: my wife and Lucas stay currently in a city near the german border; where he gets the schooling he needs (as it is was not provided in the ES: "ABA lack") and my daughter and me remain in Brussels where she currently follows the European School with good sucess!

As you for sure understand we all have a high interest to see our family in short term together again. This will be only possible if you will provide access to my son in the European School.

In his case you need to take these measures:

ABA (applied behaviour analysis)
Assistant who is trained in ABA and
learning different model and program for him analogue to his needs (the school he is currently in will explain you :-)

Please also allow me also to remind you to reimbourse my expenses I had up to the schooling within the new school:

It is not reasonable (and therefore discriminatory) to let parents with disabled children wait for months to get this reimboursement which are caused by European Schools incompetence to deal with disabilities.

My uncovered material cost are Euro XX

Please be aware that this causes additional stress to these families. As you may know many families, whos´children were excluded by the European School got seriously ill (i received different reports)

It is in our all interest to change this: please start asap and try to be a role model for Europe !

Best regards

Wasilios Katsioulis

Did you know…

2010-03-04T14:44:00.001-08:00

- 1 in 91 children is diagnosed with autism
- 1 in 58 boys is on the autism spectrum
- Boys are four times more likely than girls to have autism
- A new case is diagnosed almost every 20 minutes
- More children will be diagnosed with autism this year than with AIDS, diabetes & cancer combined
- Autism is the fastest-growing serious developmental disability in the U.S.
- Autism receives less than 5% of the research funding of many less prevalent childhood diseases
- There is no medical detection or cure for autism

Inclusion needs individual aproach !

2010-03-02T02:32:00.000-08:00

Inclusive education can not mean exclusively Inclusive Education within "mainstream schooling". Such an inclusion would be EXclusive and not INClusive. We need more schools with individual aproaches, its not only a question to provide disability adaptations like assistants or ABA it is also a question of the right learning material and program !

Koeln - March 14th, Conference: A School for All

2010-03-01T04:45:00.001-08:00

http://www.kobinet-nachrichten.de/cipp/kobinet/custom/pub/content,lang,1/oid,23302/ticket,g_a_s_t

Inclusive Schule setzt inklusives Lernprogramm voraus !

2010-02-28T06:49:00.001-08:00

Kinder mit schweren oder mittelgradigen Behinderungen benoetigen ein adaptiertes Lernprogramm und Adaptionen wegen ihrer Behinderung, d.h. auch unterschiedliche Schulabschluesse: Eine Schule, die lediglich ein bestimmtes oder unflexibles Schulprogramm anbietet kann selbst im Falle, dass sie bereit ist behinderungsbedingte Adaptionen anzubieten auf keinen Fall inklusiv sein, weil Kinder mit mittel-gradigen oder schweren Behinderungen unter Umstaenden diesem unangepassten Lernprogramm nicht folgen koennen, sodass die Gefahr besteht exkludiert zu werden.

Eine solche Gefahr und Situation kann jedoch bei einer "inklusiven Schule" nicht eintreten.

Inklusive Schule bedeutet also die Zur Verfügungstellung von Adaptionen sowie ein individuelles Lernprogramm mit unterschiedlichen Abschlüssen.

MEPs back human rights for disabled

2010-02-24T07:44:00.001-08:00

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/public/story_page/047-69398-053-02-09-908-20100223STO69397-2010-22-02-2010/default_en.htm

European Parliament sub-Committee on Human Rights / Public Hearing

2010-02-24T07:30:00.001-08:00

Public hearing on

The EU Accession to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

22 February 2010, 16.15-17.20

European Parliament Brussels, PHS4B001

Background oF the UN Convention

- In force since 3 May 2008 for the States that have ratified it

- As of today, there are 80 ratifications worldwide, out of which 13 among the EU Member States

- The EU signed the Convention and its Optional Protocol on 30 March 2007 (the day when it was opened for signature).

- The EU Council of Ministers adopted the decision to accede to the UN Convention in November 2009. Main features of the Decision:

o It approves the Convention on behalf of the Community (now Union);

o It nominates the Commission as the focal point for matters relating to the implementation of the Convention

o A Code of Conduct is to be drafted by the Presidency to lay out the details of the EU accession (functions of the focal point, the role of the DPOs, the procedure for representation of the EU before the UN)

o It spells out (in Annex II) the matters that are within the exclusive competence of the Community (compatibility of state aid with the common market, common customs tariff, institutional matters, such are employment of officials, etc) and shared competence of the Community (anti-discrimination, free movement of goods, services, persons and capital, transport, gender equality, statistics, etc)

o It also mentions the matters where the EU has only complementary competence (employment, education, vocational training, economic and social cohesion).

o It lists (in the same Annex) the legislative acts that illustrate the extent of the area of competence of the Community.

o It includes (in Annex III) the reservation of the Community in relation to the employment of people with disabilities in the armed forces (allegedly, to conform to the Employment Directive).

- The Optional Protocol is not covered by the above-mentioned Decision. It will be treated separately when the political climate is more favourable and the pending legal questions are answered (currently, many Member States are worried about the possible impact of the EU ratification of the Protocol on their national legal systems).

PENDING CONCERNS NOW:

- When will the EU ratification be confirmed at the UN in New York?

- How are the implementation process and the reporting to the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities going to look like?

- Where exactly in the Commission will the focal point be placed and what powers will it have?

- Who will play the role of the European independent monitoring mechanism required to be established under the Convention?

- What role for DPOs, in accordance with the obligation under the Convention to involve them in all matters relating to the implementation of the Convention?

1. Ratification: The current work on the ratification at the EU level is happening under the premise that all EU Member States must ratify it before the EU ratification is confirmed at the UN. The EDF disagrees with this for a number of reasons:

a. This creates uncertainty in the protection of rights of people with disabilities in those EU Member States that have already ratified it. For example: Hungary ratified the Convention two years ago and it is now being implemented. A Hungarian with a disability can complain about the violation of rights to a Hungarian court. However, such a complaint is very unlikely to be accepted by the court if the law violating the right of the person is based on the EU law. The EU is not yet obliged to comply with the Convention in passing its legislation, and the Member States are not obliged to implement the EU legislation beyond the required minimum. Unless the EU and UN legal standards are uniform, the Hungarian with a disability will only be partially protected from her human rights' violation (not mentioning that this sets the EU and the UN against each other, which just cannot be good!).

b. For example, the Convention sets out very clearly that the denial of reasonable accommodation in the workplace is a form of discrimination and a violation of a human right. However, this doesn't come up as clearly in the Employment Directive 2000. Some Member States, as we know, took the decision to implement the Employment Directive to the minimum. However, as long as they comply with it, they are protected against complaints related to reasonable accommodation in the workplace based on the Convention. Such a complaint would have to be submitted against the EU whose legislation does not comply with the UN Convention. Currently, this is not possible, and therefore, the person with a disability is not protected.

c. The decision to postpone the confirmation of the EU ratification is political, rather than a legal one. The Community has previously ratified international agreements ahead of its individual Member States. Some examples include:

i. UN Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982:

1. EU ratified on 01/04 1998, before Belgium, Luxembourg or Denmark

ii. UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions of 20 October 2005

1. Community ratified on 18/12/2006, before most of its Member States (including Italy, Germany, Portugal, Netherlands…)

iii. European Convention for the Protection of Animals during International Transport (Revised), 2003

1. European Union ratified on 25/04/2004, whereas a number of its member States (including Austria, Denmark, France, Ireland, Poland) still have neither signed nor ratified it.

iv. UN Convention against Corruption, adopted on 31 October 2003

1. European Community approved of it on 12 November 2008, whereas the Czech Republic and Germany have still not done so.

v. WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control

1. European Community formally confirmed its accession on 30 June 2005, whereas the Czech Republic still has not done so.

d. Some (most??) of these international agreements are adopted by unanimity.

e. EU signed the Convention on 30 March 2007, before some of its Member States. This shows that such a commitment is possible and realistic.

2. Implementation:

In parallel with the political work, more clarification is needed to understand how the implementation process will work on the EU level. It is understood that the EU will only be able to implement the Convention as far as its competencies go but the details of it are now being discussed by the Commission and the Presidency drafting the Code of Conduct.

As the Convention Article 33.3 provides, the organisations of people with disabilities must be actively involved in all work on the implementation of the Convention. So far the EDF has not been contacted to give its input to the Code of Conduct (in fact no one even informed us of the procedure!). We would like to use this opportunity to publicly ask for close involvement in the drafting process.

Having to base my recommendations on the speculations on what such a Code of Conduct should include, I would like to suggest that it must cover the following elements:

2a. Provision on a European strategy on implementation. Important elements:

- Making the Convention known among all relevant parties (EU institutions, not forgetting external delegations). They cannot be expected to implement it without knowing its content and the expected impact

- Analysis of existing gaps (in law and policy) and suggested actions to close them

- Timeline. The progress in the implementation of the Convention must be measurable. It must be linked to reaching concrete milestones in set time period.

2b. Institutional framework. The Council decision nominated the Commission to serve as the focal point for the EU implementation but there are many more open questions:

- Who in the Commission? Based on our experience, we insist that the focal point placed so that it is able to oversee horizontally as well as vertically the implementation of the Convention across all policy areas. For example, it could be the Office of the Commission President (Secretary-General).

- What powers will the focal point have? We suggest that it should have the clear mandate to demand from other services the information on progress towards the implementation. In order to do this ambitious work, the focal point will need additional human and financial resources.

- The UN Convention will change the role of all EU institutions. Therefore, we have to think in broad terms, how the focal point would look like and who it would include. The main point is that it would have to have a very strong mandate in order to be able to coordinate the work of all EU institutions in implementation of the Convention.

- What role for the existing structures, such as the High Level Group on Disability or the Commission Inter-service group on disability? These bodies are clearly insufficient to serve as focal points or independent mechanisms, but should they be restructured and given a new (clearer and stronger) mandate to perform some function under the CRPD?

2c. Independent mechanism. The Convention requires that an independent mechanism be established to "promote, protect and monitor" implementation of the Convention.

This is one of the novelties of this Convention, compared to other UN Treaty body instruments (the closest independent mechanism to that already exists is the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture, but naturally it has a different scope and application).

Independence of the body is a crucial point. Different Member States have approached this requirement differently – some have revised the mandate of the existing bodies, some have created the new ones. At the EU level, there is currently no body that could play this role. The most often mentioned candidate for this role – the Fundamental Rights Agency – is neither independent enough, nor has the mandate to required to fulfil the job. We are therefore in favour of creation of a new body that would comply with the Paris Principles.

The study recently published by the OHCHR states that the framework of independent mechanisms can include more than one body: in addition to a human rights institution established in compliance with Paris Principles, it can include others. In this context, we think it is completely appropriate to suggest that the EDF could be part of the framework.

The European Ombudsman should also not forgotten. This is an institution that deals with maladministration of the institutions and bodies of the EU, and it has previously addressed the disability-related complaints.

2d. Involvement of civil society, in particular, DPOs. The Convention obliges the States Parties to enable the involvement and full participation of DPOs in the monitoring process. The Code of Conduct that is now being drafted, will outline the details of this involvement. Some suggestions:

- DPOs participate in the nomination of the members of the independent monitoring mechanism

- DPOs participate in the drafting and approval of the action plan in implementation of CRPD. The participation must go beyond inviting them to make comments at the final stage of drafting!!!

- DPOs participate, as equal partners, in the evaluation of the progress made in implementation

In order to fully involve the civil society in the monitoring work, the EU must foresee a special budget and terms of reference for this.

3. Possible role of the European Parliament. The EP has traditionally been the EU human rights guardian and the long-standing ally of the disability community. We would of course be very interested to see the EP have a formal role in the process. Some ideas:

- Annual report on the implementation of the Convention

- Commission presents its periodic reports to the EP before it send it to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

- EP ensures that the adequate budgetary framework for the implementation of the Convention.

In conclusion, the two main points need to be stressed again:

- Speedy ratification of the Convention

o Article 44 on Regional Integration Organisations was included in the Convention at the request of the EU. In enables the EU (and other regional organisations) to accede to the Convention. Having placed this Article in the Convention, it is the EU's obligation to live up to its promises and make the Convention part of its legal system as soon as possible.

- Involvement of DPOs in all processes relating to the implementation, incl drafting the Code of Conduct.

- It is the first time in the EU history that it accedes to an international human rights treaty. Ti really showed the EU commitments in promoting human rights of people with disabilities. This leading role of the EU should be maintained today, bearing in mind the diverse levels of protection of the rights of people with disabilities in the Member States set against 27 different historical backgrounds. The EU should show its leadership in uniting the Member States and confirming its ratification speedily.

Wie sollte eine inklusive Schule zumindest aussehen?

2010-02-24T04:44:00.000-08:00

Sie sollte die Moeglichkeit bieten Alle Kinder aufzunehmen und zu beschulen,
sie sollte alle notwendigen behinderungsbedingten Adaptionen zur Verfuegung stellen, damit das Kind optimal gefoerdert werden kann
gemeinsamer sowie individueller Unterricht je nach dem aktuellen Stand der Lernfaehigkeit
Standard- und indvidueller Lernstoff.
Flexibilitaet im Ubergang zwischen gemeinsamen und individuellen Unterricht
moeglichst alle soziale Aktivitaeten gemeinsam und da wo es geht auch gemeinsames lernen.
auf Behinderungen trainiertes Lehrpersonal
auf Behinderungen ausgebildetes Schulmanagement
Aufklaerung und Einbindung der Eltern in behinderungsbedingte Fragestellungen
ausreichende und flexible Personalreserve fuer die Betreung aller Schueler
ausreichende Gebaeudekapazitaeten.
.....

Studieren mit Behinderung wird Chefsache

2010-02-23T05:10:00.001-08:00

http://www.kobinet-nachrichten.de/cipp/kobinet/custom/pub/content,lang,1/oid,23249/ticket,g_a_s_t

EU accession to the UN Convention: Public Hearing

2010-02-20T05:49:00.000-08:00

Datum:	Montag, 22. Februar 2010
Zeit:	16:10 - 17:30
Ort:	European Parliament, PHS 4B001, Brussels

Draft Programme

16.15 Introductory remarks and presentation by Ms Heidi Hautala, chairwoman of the Subcommittee on Human Rights;

16.25 Representative of United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for
Human Rights;

16.35 Ms Belinda Pyke, Director, European Commission, DG Employment, Directorate G "Equality between Men and Women, Action against Discrimination, Civil Society"

16.45 Representative of the Council, COHOM working party;

16.55 Ms Erzsébet Szöllosi, Vice President, European Disability Forum

17.05 Discussion

17.20. Concluding remarks by the chairwoman

IMPORTANT NOTICE:
The personal attendance for EPs DROI-hearing on Monday, Feb 22nd at 16.15 is possible with a valid badge of the European Parliament.

There is NO possibility to put people on a guest list for attendance to this meeting in this short time // it seem to be necessary to aware about this fact.

BUT:
the hearing will be transmitted via Internet on the following websites:
http://europarltv.europa.eu/ParliamentLive.aspx
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/eplive/public/default_en.htm

Documents to the hearing:
HANDBOOK FOR PARLIAMENTARIANS From Exclusion
to Equality
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/document/activities/cont/201002/20100212ATT68937/20100212ATT68937EN.pdf