Simon Antal Primary
School, Student Home, Children’s Home
The school opened its doors in
1971 as an Auxiliary School for Children with Hearing Problems offering accomodation for one hundred inmates. This was the first
institution in
From September, 1988 the institution’s profile was extended to include
mentally healthy children with problems of speaking, reading or understanding
the spoken language or written texts. At present, this section deals with
pupils from the preparatory classes to the fourth grade of the primary school
and offers education, special education, health service, training and rehabilitation
for handicapped children. Our aim is to train children with speech disorders so
as to make them capable of reintegrating into normal classes in their original
place of residence.
Our institution deals with the habilitation
and rehabilitation of children with complex problems (mental deficiency plus
hearing problems), moderately mentally handicapped, and autistic children.
Today the student home houses one hundred and forty children in rooms
with four beds each. The education of those with complex problems and speech
disorders and of those living in the student home takes place in different
buildings. Our temporary children’s home houses twenty children.
The student home aims to replace the family for the children and offers
social welfare as well as physical and emotional security for them. Those with
complex problems learn basic learning and communicational skills, social
behaviour, self-reliance, self-service, working abilities, and
interoperability.
The section for children with speech defects aims to correct this
deficiency and problems with reading, writing, and calculation, and to prevent
or compensate secondary problems. Besides learning the normal curriculum of
their respective classes, these children continuously receive special education
and speech therapy.
Our institution creates a relaxed and calm atmosphere for its activities
for both children and adults, based on mutual trust, acceptance and pedagogical
activities that rest on the observance of the special needs of these children both
as groups and as individuals, forming a unified and structured system.
Our team consists of special teachers, speech therapists, counsellors,
teachers, phychologists, medical specialists, nurses,
and physiotherapists. Our well-equipped gym for adapted physical education
houses a time-honoured programme of sensorimotor
therapy. In warm weather an outdoor swimming-bath serves the instruction of
swimming. In winter we take our pupils to the public baths to swim. In the
web-lab pupils can learn to use computers on a basic level.
Pupils are admitted on recommendation by competent expert committees.