Nursery educators from ULS kindergartens receive training on inclusive education

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The idea of ​​this activity is to promote the concept of inclusion and talk about the topic with professionals who work daily with boys and girls who demonstrate and are completely different beings from each other.

In the context of the Inclusion and Universal Accessibility Project 1799 of the University of La Serena, training was carried out for the educators of the ULS Kindergarten and the “Los Papayitos” Nursery and Kindergarten.

The activity, led by the academic from the Department of Education, Dr. Georgina García Escala, and the project professionals, the differential educator Alejandra Galleguillos and the psychologist Sandra Salazar, focused on providing information about inclusive education in kindergartens. In this way, we reflected on the concept of disability and its evolution from a social and rights approach, the changes in policies, practices and culture in Chile based on the current legal framework at the national and international level in inclusive education, emphasizing the importance of oral language development in educational inclusion and activities for early attention to it according to age.

The training ended with a group work, where the educators had the opportunity to reflect on the importance of the evolution of the concept of disability in the country, where an increasingly inclusive health and educational system is promoted and in which values ​​diversity.

Likewise, the educators identified as the main barrier to eliminate in the educational system in Chile, the beliefs about disability in some parents, who refuse the suggestion of carrying out an evaluation of their children with the specialist and having a possible diagnosis of disability. .

Finally, the educators proposed activities to promote oral language at an age of a toddler level of development, related to storytelling with different voices, use of pets, handling of textures, word baths and songs, among others.

Source: DEIP