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ECVET compliant psycho-motorics training

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2020-1-BG01-KA202-079031
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training Funder Contribution: 204,635 EUR

ECVET compliant psycho-motorics training

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Infants at risk and children with neurodevelopmental delay, minor neurological dysfunction and developmental coordination disorder (5-10% of the children - Roberto González Salinas, 2013) can benefit from an early (rehabilitation) intervention/therapy. Early identification by primary care providers of developmental delays leads to early referral for evaluation and treatment. One of these interventions is the psycho-motorics one.Psychomotor education (psycho-motorics) is a pedagogic and therapeutic approach to support and aid an individual’s personal development. It is based on a holistic view of human beings that considers each individual as a unity of physical, emotional and cognitive actualities, which interact with each other and the surrounding social environment. Essentially, the method is psychotherapeutic in nature and origin. The deployment of psychomotricity by professionals was not as clearly defined as was the case for other disciplines such as physiotherapy and physical activity, and there was confusion as to which terminology was best used to describe it, as it could be seen as a discipline (motion science), as a technique (psychomotor practice) or as a synonym of bodily activity (psychomotor ability). Psychomotor education/training can exert an influence on affective, psychomotor, and cognitive areas, but it must be taken into account that affective and psychomotor areas tend to take a back seat after the end of preschool, when intellectual learning (with cognitive goals) occupies most of the school day.While the above clearly demonstrates the positive therapeutic effects, across Balkan countries and Turkey, there is an acute lack of such psycho-motorics therapy experts due to training being extremely expensive (ranging from a few 1000 euros to over 10000 euros) and being based on licensed practices. This lack of experts has an immediate impact on the number of parents and care givers who are left without any support, or have to rely on expensive psycho-motorics based experts who base themselves on “licensed spin-offs” (e.g. experts applying the Aucouturier Psychomotor Practice (APP)).Rehabilitation specialists eliminate the psychological element, which is the most important in psycho-motorics. For this particular reason the standard-trained rehabilitators often fail to find their position and meaning in terms of the way they were trained and its application.The project aims to provide a psycho-motorics training, ECVET compliant, for trainers to ensure that every (aspiring) physiotherapists, ergotherapists, psychologists, psychotherapists and pedagogue will be able to support the mental, motor, psychosocial, emotional, speech and language development of children with developmental delay. By ensuring an increasing number of psycho-motorics therapy experts, psycho-motorics expertise will be aggregated and taught across Balkan countries and Turkey. It will do so without being in conflict with any of the “licensed spin-offs” such as APP.Based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) numbers with regards to disability, about 1 in 50 children has a disability and this percentage only increased over the years. This means that in Bulgaria alone minimum 20000 children (on a total of 1 million children, 2018 figure) will be able to benefit from such psycho-motorics therapy. In Turkey this would amass to minimum 400000 children (on a total of 20 million children, 2019 figure). The potential impact of the project is therefore huge, and will offer a unique therapy training, using mobile and online technologies.IMPORTANT: Infants at risk and children with neurodevelopmental delay, minor neurological dysfunction and developmental coordination disorder will be included whereas children with a diagnose such as cerebral palsy, down syndrome, muscular dystrophia, brachial plexus palsy, spina bifida and neurometabolic diseases will be excluded.Target groups:-Physiotherapists-Ergotherapists-Psychologists-Psychotherapists-Pedagogues-Students of above disciplinesBeneficiaries of the improved provision of psychomotoric therapeutic services:-Infants at risk and children with neurodevelopmental delay, minor neurological dysfunction and developmental coordination disorder-Children with normal development (here psychomotor aims to develop the mental, motor, cognitive, etc. development)-Children with severe mental illness (generalized disorders, cognitive impairments, etc.)-Children with learning disabilities (dyslexia, dyspraxia, etc.)-Children with emotional and behavioural disorders -Family and/or caregiver of affected childrenIntellectual outputs that will be developed to cover the above mentioned learning gap (in English, Bulgarian and Turkish languages):-IO1: ECVET compliant PSYCHOMOTORTRAINING curriculum and course material-IO2: Digital compendium of didactic training videos

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