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SELF-IN

A SELF-MANAGEMENT LEARNING MODEL TO FOSTER THE INDEPENDENCE OF PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES

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GENERAL INFORMATION

Project budget: 139.429€ Budget allocated for IVASS: 55.344€ Duration: 36 months (until December 2024).

Aims of the project:

1. To improve the key competences of people with intellectual disabilities necessary to be able to participate in self-management programmes and to achieve higher levels of independence and social inclusion.
2. To improve the professional competences of the educators necessary to design self-management programmes.
3. To improve the capacities of the organisations to be able to implement self-management programmesr programas de autogestión.

SELF-IN INNOVATIVE APPROACH

Development of Self-management programs from a metacognitive approach

Self-management programs

Metacognitive strategies

They are groups formed by adults with intellectual disabilities who meet regularly to:

• Acquire Communication skills
• Achieve a greater personal and social autonomy
• Increase their possibilities to talk and decide by themselves
• Learn to take decisions in their daily life
• Debate about our own relevant issues
• Be able to take part in the associated life

“Competence to use our previous knowledge to plan a strategy to carry out a task, implement the necessary steps to solve a problem, reflect on the results obtained, and modify our approach when needed.”(Flavell, 1976)

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Activities and results

PR1. For educators. Theoretical-practical manual. Self-management programmes, associated key competences, metacognition strategies and creation of a tool for competence assessment (SELF-INCA tool)PR2. For people with intellectual disabilities. Training course to improve key competences associated to self-management. 20 accessible exercises (May 2023).C1.Training activity in Padua for educators (June 2023).NT1-NT2. National training 20 hours for beneficiaries (Sept 2023-December2024)PR3. Implementation of self-management programmes and implementation manual and recommendations.PR4. MOOC course developed by the University of Padua (December 2024)Stakeholders database for project dissemination (more than 100 at local, regional, national, and international level)

PR2 - Examples of exercises

Organizations collaborating in the project

Centro Especial de Empleo de Montajes Electricos

C.O. La Costera-Canal de XàtivaC.O. Habilitare Torrent (ABD)C.O. José Alcamí

Thanks for your attention!

María Sorzano: Jose Manuel Gil:

sorzano_marcas@ivass.gva.es gil_josguz@ivass.gva.es