Erfurt (dpa/th) – Significantly more than two thirds of deaf or hard-of-hearing students in Thuringia learned in shared lessons and not at special schools last school year. Of the 409 students with special educational needs in the area of hearing, 90 were taught at support centers and 319 were taught in inclusive lessons at other schools. This emerges from a response from the Thuringian Ministry of Education to a small question from the education policy spokesman for the CDU parliamentary group, Christian Tischner. According to this, 78 percent of children and young people with hearing impairments do not attend a special school.
Compensation for disadvantages possible
The data refers to the 2022/2023 school year. 108 children and young people with hearing impairments learned at primary schools, 78 at regular schools, 77 at community schools, 37 at high schools and 19 at comprehensive or other schools. Tischner said that a lot can be achieved with aids, especially with children with physical disabilities – inclusive lessons are usually possible here.
Students with disabilities can be granted so-called disadvantage compensation. It is possible, for example, that they are given more time for performance assessments or exams, that they are allowed to use technical aids, or that tasks are adapted. This also depends on the type of impairment.
Only one school with a sign language department
The ministry’s response also shows that so far hardly any schools offer sign language as a subject. Currently, only the “Johann Wolfgang von Goethe” regular school in Schleiz has an internal school curriculum for German sign language. Two other schools have been advised about such an offer in the past two years. Tischner said that an elective sign subject is not only an option for children with hearing problems, but also for children without disabilities who are interested in it.
According to the Ministry of Education, secondary schools have had the opportunity to offer secondary school subjects as a subject for several years. However, a few requirements must be met – for example, enough students who want to take the subject and sufficient human resources.
Tischner pointed out that there are only a few universities in Germany where simultaneous sign interpreters are trained. He spoke out in favor of offering such training in Thuringia.
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2023-12-10 07:09:46
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