Good practice submission

Organisation details

3rd Special Needs Preschool of Patras

Please describe the main road safety challenges/problems you have addressed or are addressing.

Road and transport behaviour in preschoolers with disability and their parents.

What are your objectives?

Increase awareness for the road rules and the rule when using transports

Teach proper raod and transport behaviour

Project activities

List the actions you carried/are carrying out

Date

Tuesday, 1 March, 2016 to Tuesday, 31 May, 2016

Name of action

Cooperation with specialists: police officers and educators form the road/traffic park we have in our town.Visits: a) our school will be visiting the road/traffic park, b) a police officer will visit our school and c) walks in the neighbourhood to recognise traffic signs.Tools: educational material (traffic signs, zebra, traffic lights etc) and the programmable toy Bee-Bot that includes spatial concepts. The programmable toy is a useful cognitive tool for developing spatial concpets such as direction and orientation and especially for children without communication skills. It only need to be programmed for moving around a mat which will be a simulation of the park for road/traffic education.

Evaluation

How have you shared information about your project and its results?

Newsletters to the local blogs and sites, an open-day in school, leaflet, posters

How many people did you reach/have you reached?

0-50

Who carried/carries out the evaluation activities?

Internal evaluation

When did/will you carry out the evaluation?

Before, after and continuous monitoring

How many groups did you evaluate/have you evaluated?

Number of interventions groups

Number of control groups

Please list the indicators you use to measure success

qualiltative approach for describing the proper road and transport behaviour

and quantitative approach when measuring the frequency of proper behaviours

Please describe the evaluation tools you use (i.e. surveys, interviews, focus groups, etc.)

Results form research, questionnaires, focus groups.

Good practice submission