HOSTING THE FOURTH PARRENT TRAINING THROUGH THE PROJECT FOR POSITIVE PARENTING - ESIPP

Abstract

In the past two years MSSA through the active participation in the Erazmus plus project „Equity and social inclusion through positive parenting“ has held three parent trainings which were delivered to parents with children with ASD. The first three parent trainings were conducted by our colleages from England and Cyprus in the special school „Zlatan Sremec“ and „Idnina“ in Skopje. The fourth parent training session was held in the special school „Maca Ovcarova“ in Veles where for the first time the trainers were from Macedonia. The training session was held in the 18th and 19th of June each day and it started at 10 am. The trainers that held the parent training sessions were Phd Jasmina Trosanska, Ana Sikaleska and Jurtoski Filip. In this parent training session there were six modules that were presented to the parents across the two days of training and they are all consistent with different thematic about children with ASD. Thee modules were selected after an extensive research in which the aim was to find out which modules would the parents like to have training for so that they might find out more about their children. The training session started in 10 am on the 18th of June. There were more then ten attending parents in these sessions. The training session was opened by prof. d-r Vladimir Trajkovski, who thanked the parents for their interest and attendance and represented the ESIPP project and its goals. Phd Jasmina Trosanska began the training session with the first module titled „Introduction in Autism“ after a short break Jurtoski Filip began the second module for the day „Understanding and managing challenging behaviors“ and the third module was presented by Ana Sikaleska titled „Managing sensory sensitivity“. The parents during the training session on the first day showed great interest for the training, and were constantly active and open for discussion and sharing their experience amongst each other and with the trainers. The session ended in 15:30 pm. On the 19th of June the second session of the parent training began at 10 am. The second session began with the lecture of d-r Jasmina Trosanska titled „Communication and its influence on behavior“ after a short break Jurtoski Filip continued with the second module for the second session of the parent training titled „ Positive approaches towards social development and social interaction“, and the second session of the parent training was closed with the lecture of Ana Sikaleska titled „ The importance of visual structure and its implementation“. The second session and the overall parent training ended in 15:30. The parents during the discussion showed their gratitude for the trainings and for choosing Veles as the location to held the trainings and expressed to have more trainings from this type because they really feel the need and necessity to learn more about their children. The ESIPP team thanked them for their interest and words of praise. The team announced that there will be more trainings but in other cities and that soon in October or November we will have a conference in Skopje in which they are all invited to attend