Projects
Opening the black box: the decision-making process on reasonable accommodations for children with special educational needs in primary mainstream education KU Leuven
Reasonable accommodations (RA) are described as essential adaptations or adjustments to make the school environment accessible for all students, and especially for students with special educational needs (SEN). The right of RA is an integral part of the UN Convention on the Rights for People with Disabilities (CRPD) where it is stated that schools should provide students with SEN with maximal chances to participate in mainstream education by ...
“Caring is sharing”: Creating a holding environment of quality relationships between the home and the facilitated group-home for children with extensive support needs. KU Leuven
Support needs and trajectories of young adults with disabilities Ghent University
For many individuals, young adulthood represents the formative phase par excellence, where one hopes to lay the foundations for the rest of life. Whereas in adolescence one can still dream of the future, then in young adulthood one tries to turn those dreams into reality. For many young people, that means figuring out in good time what they want in terms of work or education, but also how they need to find and navigate their way through ...
Magenta@Brussel: Magenta is translating its existing offer for parents with a special need due to a limitation or a chronic illness between 0 and 14 years to the Brussels context KU Leuven
Magenta is translating its existing offer for parents of children with a special need due to a limitation or a chronic illness between 0 and 14 years to the Brussels context. Magenta develops supporting tools for this together with the parents from Brussels and from the user's perspective.
Research into relational and sexual education (RSV) among pupils with a disability in special secondary education schools in Flanders Ghent University
In an exploratory research project it will be investigated which contents children and young people with a disabilit are offered with regard to Relational-Sexual education in Flemish schools for special secondary education.
All Flemish BUSO schools are invited to participate.
Examples of good practice and of contents that need to be improved will be presented.
Meeting difference in the regular classroom: Participatory research with children with a disability and their peers in inclusive primary education Ghent University
Study 1 investigates the way 20 disabled children experience their daily educational (ableist) practices. Study 2 analyses the perspectives of 30 non-disabled peers in inclusive education, focusing on meanings of ‘an inclusive educational setting’ and ‘difference’. Study 3 aims at implications regarding ethical and participatory research with children. During study 4 (non-
)disabled pupils create an accessible book containing their ...
The development of a care pathway in youth care for children and young people with (complex) emotional and behavioral disorders Ghent University
Children and young people with (complex) emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD) are at the intersection between different "sectors" in youth care (VAPH, Agentschap Opgroeien, GGZ).
Despite efforts in the past to come to a more performant treatment and intersectoral cooperation (youth care networks, decree "Integrale Jeugdhulp", GES+, ...) youth care services indicate doubts related to how to deal with the children and young people ...
Temperament and parenting as predictors of psychosocial development in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Down Syndrome, and Cerebral Palsy. Ghent University
This project addresses the predictive value of the temperament-parenting interplay, vitally crucial for all children, to explain the wide range of variability in both maladaptive and adaptive development of youngsters with special needs. Using a three-wave prospective cohort design, transdiagnostic generalizability of processes is tested in and across three neurodevelopmental disabilities (Autism, Down syndrome, Cerebral Palsy) relative to ...
Young children with language difficulties: A dimensional approach KU Leuven
Young children with language difficulties form a heterogeneous group. These children do not only differ with respect to the nature and severity of their language difficulties but also with respect to their abilities in other domains of functioning and their development over time. Early language difficulties can signal the presence of a neurodevelopmental disorder. Diagnostic criteria for these disorders are outlined in the DSM-5 and ICD-10. ...