The Mayor of Kazan visited a resource class for children with autistic disorder at the school №1

(KZN.RU, September 14, Mikhail Chentsov). Today Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of the city, visited one of the resource classes for children with autism spectrum disorder at the school №1 of the Vakhitovsky district of Kazan. Such classes appeared in five educational institutions of the capital of Tatarstan this year. The Mayor looked at a special class, where he talked with the teacher and students.

On September 1, 2017, resource classes for children with autistic diseases were opened in Kazan in schools №1, 65, 97, 156, and 168. The cost of equipping the classes was 1.66 million rubles. In addition, the fund has allocated almost another 335 thousand rubles for training 17 teachers and tutors on a specialized pedagogical program.

Darina Tabakova, the general director of the charitable fund “V Tvoyu Polzu”, which together with Ilsur Metshin visited school №1, noted that resource class teachers work according to a special program that has proved itself well both in Russia and in international practice. “Together with the Education Department of Kazan, we have prepared a social project for teaching children with an autism spectrum disorder in the secondary schools of the city. We fully equipped the classrooms, trained staff who work with children on a daily basis. It allows socializing children so that in the future they can live in a society”, she said about the project.

7 pupils training in the resource class at school №1. In total, 19 applications were submitted from the parents for the standard of primary education, and all children are arranged in the appropriate classes. Before the opening of resource classes, children studied in correctional schools or at home. And an inclusive education helps these children to socialize and find their place in society.

Teacher Olga Galanina, who deals with children with autism spectrum disorder, told the Mayor of Kazan that many cases are known in the world practice when the autistic children are undergoing a correction and even are being cured.

According to I. Metshin, he specially came to see how the new program, which is very important for the city, is being realized. "We started this work together with Oscar Prokopiev, the chairman of the board of the Bank of Kazan, and the fund" In your favor "within the framework of the" Good Kazan "project. For us, this is a new direction. We will definitely support it, study it and continue implementing it. Because there is a positive experience in the world, and not only in the world, thank God, but also in your school. Thank you very much for this work! "Said Ilsur Metshin.

Olga Galanina also told the Mayor of Kazan about the specifics of studying in a special class. She noted that until recently there was no adapted educational program with the participation of tutors. Such specialists help children throughout the day: the entire educational process is built on the fact that interaction with people happens through them.

“At the very beginning, this program is built on the theory of ABA. Certain behavioral moments, skills, and skills are practiced, and then we go to a deeper level of regulation and self-awareness. This process is long enough, time-consuming but effective”, she said.

At the end of the lesson, I. Metshin congratulated one of the seven pupils of the class on his birthday. Ramir, who turned 8 today, received a construction set from the Mayor of Kazan. “Invite us once you make it! Happy birthday to you, be healthy and happy”, said the Mayor.

Damir Fattakhov, the first deputy head of the Kazan Executive Committee, Ilsur Khadiullin, the head of the Education Department, and Andrey Lobov, the head of the Vakhitovsky and Privolzhsky districts’ administration, also visited the school together with the head of the capital of the RT.

Since last year, state standards of education for children with disabilities have been introduced in Russia. So, 61 schools in Kazan are adapted for the education of disabled children, 34 institutions are the basic sites for inclusive education in each district of the city. 2 resource centers have already been made, which have established networking with specialized medical institutions, and a class for blind children is open at music school №13.