Dyslexia Teens' Dialogue
Date du début: 1 août 2014,
Date de fin: 31 déc. 2015
PROJET
TERMINÉ
This project aims to improve the skills, visibility and voice of youths with dyslexia. It arose out of the need of participating youths to be better-equipped with skills to help them succeed in life, their careers, and their education. The project is therefore two-fold. On the one hand it seeks to provide the opportunity for two groups of youths with dyslexia, one in Malta and one in Italy, to improve their leadership skills, project management, communication, public speaking, language and ICT skills, artistic abilities and sports amongst others, in order to have better chances in life, their careers, and their social commitments. On the other hand, it seeks to actively engage professionals, policy makers and the public to make decisions that ensure fair and equal opportunity and possibilities for success for young people with dyslexia.
22 youths with dyslexia, aged between 15 and 20 are participating in this project. The youths come from Italy and from Malta. The objectives of this project is to provide the space to develop skills and better strategies and suggestions through inter-cultural dialogue. Understanding the perspective and ideas of other youths in other countries is considered important, and will be the basis of all the activities in this youth exchange. The activities organized include; inter-cultural learning activities, self-expression and story-telling workshops, role-plays and debate, reflection on past activities and planning for future advocacy programmes, theatre and sports, production and translation of an information booklet about dyslexia and ways to interact and work with youths with dyslexia, as well as an advocacy exhibition on social inclusion and youth empowerment, to bring together different people with an interest in dyslexia.
Youths participating in this exchange are expected to emerge with improved effective communication skills, improved abilities to listen and understand various roles and perspectives within the dyslexia debate, and improved techniques to make good suggestions for self-advocacy. They are expected to be both empowered, and better-educated to become leaders in advocating for youths with dyslexia and other disadvantaged communities, and to be able to promote a world with more just and equal opportunities for all. In the long-term, this experience will help them succeed in life, work, and in their social commitments, using the soft-skills gained, and improved artistic and sports abilities. In the long-term, it will also help them learn new ways of promoting and leading campaigns to create environments that provide fairer and more equal opportunities to all disadvantaged groups in society.
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