More than 400,000 children with disabilities were enrolled in ordinary schools at the start of the 2021 school year, which represents an increase of 19% compared to 2017. Last year, the national education system also had 125,000 accompanying persons. students with disabilities (AESH), a number up 35% in five years. But behind these encouraging figures, […]
► With Télémaque, mentoring opens up new horizons A graduate of a business school, on his way to a master’s degree, Élie Benureau, 21, would probably not have completed this career without the Télémaque association. When in fifth grade his French teacher in a priority education college in Grenoble talks to him about the mentoring […]
While families have been denouncing for years the difficulties they encounter in finding a school for their disabled child, a draft decree sets fire to the powder. If adopted as it stands, it would indeed create a category of children “impossible” to attend school, in complete reversal with the current approach to disability. → EXPLANATION. […]
She has that elusive gaze that calls out to you. Light hair illuminates her beautiful face steeped in mystery. On his mother’s lap, the child begins to fidget. We are seated side by side. This meeting of parents must seem endless to him. Myself, I poke my nose under my mask. My concentration falters. So […]
Around a hundred children with multiple disabilities will return to school this year in dedicated classes in primary schools. The Secretary of State in charge of disabled people Sophie Cluzel announced, Monday, August 30, the creation of 5 new “Outsourced teaching unit” (UEE) in ordinary establishments, bringing to 8 the number of classes of this […]
“Hamou and I have been paraplegics since the age of 21 and 19, following car accidents. We met by chance a few years later, but our first relationship didn’t last. We did not follow the same path during the reconstruction. I immediately accepted my disability, I took trips, I moved, while Hamou resumed her life […]
The cross : Is the presence of an accompanying person for disabled students (AESH) with a disabled student always necessary? Marc Blin: By putting a priori an AESH with a child, we consider that it is the diagnosis that prescribes the need for support and we no longer wonder about his particular needs, his singularity. […]