The Department of Social Welfare and Education submitted a joint motion to the full City Council to urge the Ministry of Education of the Autonomous Region of Murcia to start the next school year 2009 - 2010 of a new in Open Classroom Totana to cover care for children with special educational needs.
To do so, through this proposal, from both municipal departments asks that the most appropriate location, either at the College "Tierno Galván" or in another school in the municipality of Totana.
Open Classrooms, explained Councillor for Social Welfare, are specialized classes in mainstream schools, which are an extraordinary resource that can provide a context for some students with special educational needs have a significant disability.
In such classrooms serving children with special needs arising from pervasive developmental disorders, learning disabilities, multiple disabilities, hearing impairment, severe motor disability, associated with other deficiencies, which requires an individualized care enrollment and a significant adaptations of the curriculum .
In this sense, the mayor recalled that the Ministry of Education gave the school "Tierno Galván" Totana an Open Classroom last year, which, as stated "is assuming an educational response in a normalizing context for pupils with special educational needs Special can not afford regular schooling. "
Source: Ayuntamiento de Totana. Foto: archivo Totana.com