| s may also be laboring under difficulties -intellectual | | | | qualify for funds via the auxiliary resource to finance |
| and physical handicaps, emotional and social | | | | both teacher inputs and other personnel inputs. Quite |
| disturbances -which are so great that they have to | | | | considerable inputs of these kinds may be needed in |
| attend a special teaching group for all lessons. In | | | | many cases. In order to achieve a reasonable balance |
| certain cases, however, they can also attend leisure | | | | between measures of different kinds, inputs in |
| activities and school lunches together with the main | | | | connection with adjusted courses of studies should |
| group. Special day schools or, in isolated cases, school | | | | be arranged with the assistance of the auxiliary |
| boarding homes can be organized on these lines at | | | | resource of the local school. |
| the instance of the local educational authorities. | | | | Decisions concerning adjusted courses of studies are |
| Special teaching is arranged in hospitals, orphanages, | | | | made by the LEA after consulting the pupil welfare |
| the homes of individual pupils or other suitable places | | | | conference. It is essential; however, to avoid |
| for pupils who suffer from prolonged illness or who | | | | dramatizing these decisions, especially where they |
| are unable to participate in ordinary school work | | | | involve no more than adjustments within the time |
| owing to a disability or illness which entails repeated | | | | schedule, e.g. increased training in skills for an individual |
| short-term absence. | | | | pupils This expedient must not be made to look like |
| Schools are unlikely to succeed entirely in organizing a | | | | the last link in a long chain, as can happen if handling is |
| form of schooling which will provide the best possible | | | | excessively formalized and protracted. If this happens |
| development opportunities for all children. For this | | | | the decision in favor of an adjusted course of studies |
| reason, instruction can be remedial methods and | | | | may very well come to be seen in a negative light, |
| co-operation further adapted to the needs of certain | | | | whereas the aim should be for the pupil to |
| pupils by departing from the time schedule. In isolated | | | | experience it as support from the school. The LEA is |
| cases involving senior level pupils, the question may | | | | therefore empowered to delegate decision-making |
| arise of a certain proportion of their education being | | | | powers to a headmaster. |
| completed in working life. Before a school departs | | | | In order for the measures taken by a school on |
| from the time schedule by arranging an adjusted | | | | behalf of pupils in difficulty to be effective, the |
| course of studies, consideration should always be | | | | school must make the greatest possible use of |
| given to the possibility of providing the pupil with | | | | remedial teaching methods. The work done by |
| meaningful study assignments by means of extended | | | | qualified remedial teachers, therefore, must not be |
| projects studies. | | | | confined to a special type of organization, e.g. a |
| A pupil taking an adjusted course of studies must | | | | special teaching group and remedial teaching. Qualified |
| always be given instruction in certain basic skills. This | | | | remedial teachers should also participate in the |
| instruction can well be increased in relation to the | | | | planning by work units of assistance to pupils with |
| time schedule. The term 'adjusted course of studies' | | | | difficulties of various kinds, in the compilation of |
| indicates that the pupil concerned must follow a | | | | practical programs, in contacts with parents and in |
| course of studies and not merely be referred to a | | | | the teaching activities of the work team. |
| workplace. An adjusted course of studies therefore | | | | Success will also hinge on close contacts with |
| needs to be properly planned. The pupil must receive | | | | parents, with persons dealing with social problems and |
| extensive assistance from supervisors and teachers. | | | | leisure questions in this field, with the police and, |
| Instruction at senior level is partly provided at an | | | | needless to say, with alI staff categories at the |
| external workplace and must receive support from | | | | school concerned. It is the duty of the school |
| the school staff. Like other measures on behalf of | | | | management and the form master to ensure that |
| pupils with difficulties, adjusted courses of studies | | | | consultations take place. |