Project Definition

Introduction

A European project aimed at parents with their hearing impaired child or children associating professionals and parents for the first time in an HIPEN project on the topic of FAMILY SUPPORT for families with educational and communication difficulties with their deaf child or children. The project has the ambition of reinforcing the partnership between parents and professionals and to formalize the family support work for the well-being of the hearing impaired children. The final objective is that family support could be clearly identified by parents as part of the institutional framework of the specialized centers and close to the needs of families.

The Purpose (Mission)

• To have a formal and practical report of family support

• To define and formalize family support in theory and practice

• To disseminate the results of the project, to communicate about it and to evaluate the project and its results

These are outcomes

• Make a common leaflet about family support adaptable to each country

• Make an official and permanent survey tool about families

• Integrate the project and its results in the institutional projects of each centre

This are means of project

• Define concepts (family support / parenthood / education / situation of handicap) with the help of experts (philosophers for example)

• Make an inventory of practices from each country

• Identify difficulties faced by professionals

• Define the role and missions of professionals and parents

• Identify good practices

• Create new practices