LET'S COMMUNICATE! is a capacity building project in the field of youth. This project aim is to improve language skills of young people who are deaf or hard of hearing to enable them to actively participate in educational process. During the implementation of the project various activities will be implemented through project partnerships with Kumut Chandruang Fundation – Maradokmai (Thailand), Teatar Tirena (Croatia), Nakhonpathom School for the Deaf (Thailand) and Društvo ustvarjalcev Taka Tuka (Slovenia). The target group of this project are young people with hearing and communicating limitations, their hearing peers and youth workers, teachers, specialists who work with them and the institutions which work with those groups of young people. We are going to develop open access to the useful teaching tools and tips for using drama in education method for learning languages deaf students.Young deaf and hearing members of consortium organisations will be actively involved in all project activities. They will be part of project working team and they will contribute in all stages of the project activities.At the time of the project we are planning five mobility: two working meetings, youth exchange, training course and conference.We will produce educational book useful for the youth workers and teachers (it will be in four languages), the self-assessment form of language learning, form for learning language planning and the video to promote positive impact of Drama in Education method.
LET'S COMMUNICATE! was a capacity building project in the field of youth lead by Taka Tuka Society (Slovenia) in partnership with Teatar Tirena (Croatia) and Kumut Chandruang Foundation: Moradokmai Home-school and community (Thailand).It aimed at improving language skills of young people with speech, language and communication difficulties and with hearing impairment to enable them to actively participate in educational process as well as social life.For this purpose experts of special education, drama in education and languages worked together, to create (language) learning process based on drama techniques and to apply it in project activities together with young people. During its implementation two groups (Slovenian and Thai) of youth actively participated in project activities. They learned international sign language and English through drama, lead workshops for their peers, helped in organizing local events, attended youth exchange, presented their experience at local schools and public events.Consortium members were meeting in different locations to share their knowledge and develop useful material for their communities. Mobility: Working meeting in ZagrebYouth exchange in ThailandWorking meeting in Thailand Training course in Ljubljana Final Conference in Ljubljana The results of these meetings were educational books for using drama techniques for fostering social and communication skills and learning languages. The books are useful for special and mainstream education.Furthermore, they trained pedagogical workers from different educational settings on using developed resources with their students.Project's final event was 8. International Educational Drama and Theater Conference "The Power of Communication" in Ljubljana. The conference offered a series of lectures, workshops and discussion about educational theater and drama, where a special part was dedicated to benefits of drama for inclusion of young people with special needs.