This date in the calendar is designed not only to remind about the barriers faced by people with disabilities. Full participation of people with disabilities in the life of society is one of the main messages of today. This year, by the decision of the meeting of the standing commission of the Council of Rectors of Higher Education Institutions of the North-West Federal District (NWFD) on Inclusive Education on November 8 Social projects - effective tools for the formation of the university ecosystem as an inclusive space - Council of Rectors of Higher Education Institutions of the North-West Federal District, the universities of the NWFD will hold various events in an inclusive format within the framework of the Decade dedicated to the International Day of Persons with Disabilities.
Inclusive volunteers of the team "MOSTiK" of the University PROMTECHDESIGN today opened the beginning of the Decade together with the All-Russian Organization of the Deaf and the troupe of the Arkady Raikin Variety Theatre. Students of St. Petersburg State University of the Deaf were next to the young audience with hearing impairment met them in the closet, helped them to take their seats and make them comfortable to watch the interesting performance "Riki-tiki-tavi". The inclusive volunteers received preliminary training, which included recommendations on how to communicate with children with hearing impairment, a mini dictionary of words in Russian sign language, as well as instruction from the theater staff.
During such events there is always an opportunity to socialize, new friendships are born. So today with parents who bring up children with hearing impairment was organized a meeting with the director of the scientific and methodological resource center for inclusive and dual education Ƶ Irina Yanyk and outlined new trajectories of counseling on career guidance work in the areas of training of the university. A good friend of our university sign language interpreter Oksana Butsyk helped during the meeting.
In Ƶ created Accessible environment for the education of students with disabilities, I would like to note that every year the faculty of institutes and colleges of the University PROMTECHDISIGN improves the forms and methods of work in an inclusive educational space. Professional development courses and participation in events at the sites of our partners Resource and Training Methodological Centers of Higher Education and Special Professional Education.