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Statped – a vital part of the educational sector
Statped is a state agency that offers special
education services within the educational
sector.
Statped is dedicated to helping children, young
people and adults with special educational
needs participate actively in education, working
life and society in general. These services
are provided for by the Day Care Institutions
Act and the Education Act. Services for adults
are provided for by § 4A-2 of the Education
Act. Statped’s services are voluntary and are
offered to learning institutions by municipalities
and county municipalities as supplementary
support.
Statped’s mandate
The municipalities and county municipalities
are obligated to meet children, young
people and adults in an adequate manner
according to their rights within an inclusive
learning environment. Statped intends to
contribute actively to achieving this objective.
Inclusiveness is understood as the right to
participate and find one’s place in academic,
social and cultural settings.
Statped provides services when municipalities
and county municipalities need assistance
in this kind of work. Statped does its work
in cooperation with the Educational and
Psychological Counselling Service (PPT).
Statped is also authorised to act on own
initiative towards municipalities/county
municipalities by offering the services it deems
suitable.
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Prevention and early commitment are
essential principles in the course of an
education and in Statped’s work. This may
involve implementing measures at an early
stage in a child’s life or at a later time during
the course of an education when the need
arises or when a need is discovered.
Statped cooperates with the health sector to
identify children who from birth and people
who in childhood, as young or as adults are in
need of special education and support due to
illness or accident.
Statped shall also contribute by enhancing
competence and disseminating knowledge
among special education workers. This is often
done together with universities and colleges.
Statped is also an important operator at a
national level and initiates special programmes
within education and training on own initiative.
For 2013-2017 Statped took responsibility
for various programmes, among these
are: “Breaking New Ground” (“Vi sprenger
grenser”) and “Strategy for post-graduate
and further education in the Educational and
Psychological Counselling Service” (SEVUPPT ‒ “Strategi for etter- og videreutdanning
av ansatte i PP-tjenesten”).
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Statped – a vital part
of the educational sector
We are breaking borders
“Breaking New Ground” is the name of
a programme that intends to raise the
expectations, awareness and competence
for learning and development in children and
pupils with serious and complex learning or
developmental disabilities.
The programme aims at increasing the
academic and social benefits these children
can garner from kindergarten and school.
”
The continuing education strategy
for PPT employees
SEVU-PPT is the acronym for the
competence enhancement strategy we
designed especially for the employees of the
Educational and Psychological Counselling
Service (PPT) who want to develop
professionally. The programme is directed
at four specific areas of enhancement:
Organizational development and change
work, Learning environments and group
leadership, Guidance and counselling and
Leadership training.
Social and cultural activities
Our point of departure is an idea that cultural
and linguistic identity does not develop in a
vacuum; Statped will work to organize social
and cultural arenas where users can get
together and communicate.
Sign language
Sign language is formally recognised as an
independent language. The government is
obligated to aid in the development of sign
language and promote its use. Statped has
been assigned the task of reaching this
objective. We have set ourselves a goal of
making sign language more visible within
comprehensive education (grades 1-13).
That means all pupils should develop a
positive attitude towards this language and
all pupils and teachers should have some
knowledge about sign language and a little
training in its use. This will aid us in reaching
our objective of increasing inclusiveness and
inspiring participation among children with
problems related to hearing and hearing
loss.
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How is Statped organized?
Statped is a government agency and a public
service and operates under the auspices of
the Norwegian Directorate for Education and
Training. Statped is divided into four regional
sections, and each of these has specialty
departments assigned specific areas of
responsibility. The specialty departments
provide services within six different disciplines
or fields.
Statped also has a department dedicated
specifically to the development of learning
resources and new educational technology.
Statped’s areas of specialisation
Statped specialises in education within these
fields: Deaf-blindness / Dual visual and hearing
impairment, Acquired brain injury, Hearing
impairment, Complex learning difficulties,
Speech and language impairment and Visual
impairment.
Statped works in these fields from a
multidisciplinary approach.
Multidisciplinarity is a combination of
• special expertise in the various traditional
specialisation fields
• interprofessional competence
•o
rganization-wide system competence
• different occupational groups within the
same organization
• interdisciplinarity collaboration across
traditional professional borders
• cooperation with other government
agencies and services
The services found within specialty fields are
explained in detail at the end of this brochure.
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Sami Special Education Support
(SEAD)
SEAD is the department tasked with the
nationwide responsibility of offering services
to users of Norway’s Sami population. SEAD
provides services to individuals and to the
system as a whole within these language
groups: Northern Sami, Lule Sami, Southern
Sami and in Norwegian – in all of Statped’s
speciality fields. The services take their point
of departure in knowledge about the Sami
language and culture combined with expertise
in special education. SEAD focuses on
developing teaching tools, learning media and
mapping materials within special education for
the Sami population and offers assistance and
guidance in the use of these materials.
Two schools, full/part-time
programmes
Statped has been assigned responsibility
for two schools starting in the autumn of
2014: Skådalen School (in Oslo) is dedicated
to deafblind pupils and provides schooling
and training at comprehensive and upper
secondary levels. The A.C. Møller School
(in Trondheim) is dedicated to primary and
lower secondary pupils who depend on sign
language as their primary language and
provides bilingual education and training.
Statped also offers part-time studies for 12
weeks a year for hearing impaired pupils. The
right to education and vocational training in
sign language is provided for by the Norwegian
Education Act.
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What services does Statped offer?
Statped offers its services to individuals and/
or at a system level. The working methods
for individual and system-based intervention
are intended to support the basic principles of
inclusive education and inclusion in working
life and society.
Individualised services
Statped offers services to municipalities and
county municipalities when
•municipalities have implemented measures
that have not had the desired outcome
•municipalities cannot be expected to
provide the expertise or staff for such
services
•Statped sees a need for extra support and
expertise at a local level
•Part-time training in the use of sign
language
•Full-time education for deaf-blind pupils
and sign-language pupils
•Workshops for parents and guardians
•Workshops for users
•Local competence enhancement
•Individual examinations
•Development and evaluation of specific
measures
•Guidance, counselling and consultations
In some cases Statped will initiate
programmes and services even if no measures
have been implemented at a local level first.
Routines have already been established for
impairments such as congenital sensory loss
and acquired brain injury.
In addition to providing services to the
municipalities and county municipalities
Statped also functions as a knowledge and
resource base for everyone interested in
or anyone who needs information or help
related to special education. For example,
Statped offers information and channels of
communication to employees at schools and
kindergartens who want more information
about special education. These resources are
practical in nature and designed specifically for
use in the employee’s work.
Individualised services are directed at
individual human beings. These are some
examples of the services we offer to
individuals:
System-based services
System-based services are those that are
not directed at an individual.
We offer these services at a system level (among others):
•Lectures
•Local competence enhancement and
workshops
•Participation in specific projects
•Student work
•Developing teaching and learning
materials/resources
•Guidance, counselling and consultations
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How does one apply for Statped’s services?
Strategic use of technology
Mastering basic skills is necessary for
learning and development at school, work
and in society. Technology provides new
possibilities that allow pupils to express
themselves through writing, to learn to read
and to learn numeracy, but it also provides
an opportunity to master these skills and to
learn to use digital tools.
Statped works to develop welfare technology
so society is better able to help children,
young people and adults with special
education needs. Welfare technology is a
specific way of applying digital technology
strategically within systems.
Research and Development work (R&D))
Statped assists universities and colleges in
giving students practical field experience
and enabling research. Statped works
strategically to develop new knowledge
based on research and practical experience.
Our agency has developed its own R&D
strategy specifically for this kind of work.
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ARE YOU AN EMPLOYEE OF PPT?
Statped operates with a single-entry-point
policy for all its services. PPT begins the
application process for our services by using
the application form found on our website.
The application is sent to the regional office in
which the municipality or county is located.
The application form is available here:
statped.no/soknad.
The application for individuals must be signed by:
•a parent or guardian, or by the pupil if he is
15 years or older and of legal capacity
•The head of the local Educational and
Psychological Counselling Service (PPT)
•a person with administrative and economic
responsibility at the municipality/county
municipality
The application for municipal or county
municipal system-based services must be
signed by a person with administrative and
economic responsibility who is authorised to
implement such programmes.
ARE YOU EMPLOYED AT A
KINDERGARTEN, SCHOOL OR
ADULT EDUCATION CENTRE?
You can find information about special
education on Statped’s website (statped.no).
This information may be used for work done at
kindergartens and schools.
Services offered to kindergartens, schools
and adult education centres are available to
individuals and as system-based intervention.
Feel free to contact your local PPT office if
you think you could benefit from Statped’s
services.
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ARE YOU EMPLOYED IN THE
HEALTH SECTOR?
Referrals from health institutions must be sent
to Statped’s regional office where the user has
his or her legal address.
Referrals from the Health Sector apply to
fields in which Statped has formal agreements
with municipalities. In such cases Statped’s
application form is not necessary. These
referrals are processed as an application for
individual service. More information about this
is available on our website statped.no.
Do you have any questions for Statped?
Statped is setting up a digital info service
(grønn linje) to answer your questions
(statped.no). Your questions will be answered
by our professional staff.
Until this service line is up and running you
can send Statped your questions by email:
post@statped.no.
If your question concerns our books, films or
other similar media you can send an email to:
redaksjon@statped.no.
Do you want to order any material from Statped?
Do you want to order any material from
Statped? statped.no/laeringsressurs is the
link to an overview of the published materials
that are available for sale. You will also find
a general overview of other kinds of special
education teaching materials by following this
link.
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User involvement and
collaborative agreements
User involvement
User contribution and involvement is one of
Staped’s strategy approaches to reach its goals.
Statped’s users are children, young people
and adults with special educational needs.
Parents and guardians are also considered
users. We also participate with special interest
organizations that are dedicated to helping
our target groups. Special interest groups are
essential elements in the future development
of our services. We have our own user
involvement groups on a national level and
around the country associated with our regional
offices.
Statped is a driving force behind the
development of new knowledge about our
specialty fields and within special education and
makes this information available to the public
and the educational sector. Statped cooperates
with universities and colleges in this regard.
These services are based on long-term formal
agreements with the state. Statped has its own
R&D programme to develop new knowledge
and new practices in these fields.
Cooperation and formal agreements
Ongoing development of our services is based
on close cooperation with municipalities and
county municipalities. Statped signs framework
agreements with municipalities and county
municipalities to maximize the distribution of
tasks and responsibilities.
A formal cooperation agreement will be drawn
up between Statped and a municipality or
county municipality when Statped agrees to
provide a service. The collaboration agreement
will list and explain the details and timeframe for
each service to be provided.
Statped already offers some services within
our specialisations through the Special Health
Service and the Norwegian Labour and Welfare
Service’s practical assistance service (NAV
Hjelpemidler). These services are based on
long-term agreements with the state.
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Statped is comprised of highly trained
and educated professionals at all levels.
The various academic and professional
environments cooperate closely at all levels.
Expertise within
the specialisation
fields for special
needs education
Our staff is characterised by a wide range of
education and training, research competence
and practical experience from schools and/or
kindergartens.
Statped’s research and development leads
to greater knowledge and competence in all
special education environments. Statped is
unique in its position as an intermediary for
R&D and practical experience.
We also offer the highest competence when
it comes to development and disseminating
knowledge of learning resources and
technology within the field of special
education. Statped addresses these fields
from a multidisciplinary approach. This implies
close cooperation among our specialist
environments, the academic community and
specialty fields etc.
Statped is obligated to maintain the highest
level of expertise in our areas of specialisation:
•Deaf-blindness / Dual Visual and
Hearing Impairment
• Acquired Brain Injury
• Hearing Impairment
• Complex Learning Disabilities
• Speech and Language Impairment
• Visual Impairment
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Minority language users
Statped is able to assist the municipalities
and county municipalities in special needs
education directed at children and young
people of minority background in all our
specialty fields. These users are children
and young people with cultural and language
backgrounds that differ from Norwegian or
Sami culture and history.
Augmentative and Alternative
Communication (ASK)
Statped is working in the field of augmentative
and alternative communication (ASK ‒
Alternativ og supplerende kommunikasjon).
This includes the various kinds of
communication that support or supplant
standard forms of speech dedicated to persons
who live with little opportunity to express
themselves through speech. The right to learn
alternative forms of communication and use
these is provided for by §§ 2-16 and 3-13 of the
Norwegian Education Act.
Guidance is available in this regard as a
Statped service and area of specialisation.
The following pages outline our
specialty fields.
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Deaf-blindness/Dual Visual and Hearing Impairment
Statped offers professional expertise within the
fields of deaf-blindness and dual visual and
hearing impairment.
Deaf-blindness is a specific functional disability
that involves a serious degree of combined
vision and hearing loss. The impairment
limits a person’s activities and hinders full
participation in society to such an extent
that society is obligated to help and provide
adapted education for these people.
Deaf-blindness implies great challenges to
communication, exchanging information,
acquiring knowledge and the freedom of
movement. Combined sight and hearing
difficulties are the cause of more complex
challenges to learning than if the individual
only suffered from the loss of one sensory
function.
Individuals with combined sensory impairment
can suffer from loss of vision, loss of
hearing or both. The combined loss reduces
the possibility of utilising either function
individually.
The health sector and Statped are already
cooperating within this specialty field
through The Norwegian Resource System
for Persons with Deaf-blindness (Nasjonal
kompetansetjeneste for døvblinde).
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Specialised services
Identification: Many professional agencies
are cooperating to identify deaf-blind using
functional examinations and testing. A
report is prepared after the examination has
been carried out, which is submitted to and
discussed by the National Multidisciplinary
Task Force for Diagnosing and Identifying
Deaf-blindness, under the auspices of the
Southern and Eastern Norway Health Authority
(Oslo University Hospital).
“Straightaway” (“Straks”) is the name of
an immediate response programme in which
we offer informative conversations with the
parents and guardians of children recently
diagnosed with deaf-blindness or combined
sensory loss.
Full-time education. Skådalen School
provides schooling and training at
comprehensive and upper secondary levels for
pupils born with deaf-blindness. The school is
located in Oslo.
For further information we refer to the section
entitled What Services does Statped Offer?
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Acquired Brain Injury
Statped offers expertise within the field of
acquired brain injury.
Acquired brain injury is damage to the
brain that occurs after a period of normal
development, usually after a child has reached
12 months.
Acquired brain injury influences the child’s
development and maturation. It is necessary
here to understand the relationship between
brain injury, child development and general
functioning at school and learning.
The consequences of acquired brain injury
can be seen more clearly as classroom
assignments become more complex.
Acquired brain injury is caused by a number
of different things. We make the distinction
between Traumatic injuries and Non-traumatic
injuries:
traumatic brain injury can also be caused
by lack of oxygen to the brain due to heart
failure, suffocation or near drowning.
Due to the complex of these impairments,
Statped is required to process applications
submitted for help in this field using a
multidisciplinary approach.
Specialised services
The staff members of our “Straightaway”
(“Straks”) immediate response programme
often cooperate with the health sector by
offering special needs education advisors as
early as possible after the injury is discovered.
For further information we refer to the section
entitled What Services does Statped Offer?
•Traumatic brain injury is caused by
external influences such as a stroke or
an impact injury to the head. The most
common causes are traffic accidents,
sport/leisure accidents or occupational
injury. While adults are most often injured
in traffic accidents, the cause of injury to
children is usually related to falls, sports or
leisure activities.
•
Non-traumatic brain injury an be caused
by illness at home or away from home.
Examples of brain illnesses can be brain
tumours, meningitis or a stroke. Non-
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Hearing Impairment
Statped has expertise within the field of
hearing impairment and directs its efforts
at education and audio training for children,
young people and adults with hearing
impairments so they can develop to the best of
their abilities in using language and finding an
occupation.
This specialty field offers a wide range of
services for users with many different degrees
and kinds of hearing impairments, as well as
addressing questions and offering services
related to bimodal-bilingual training (sign
language).
Specialised services
“Straightaway” (“Straks”) offers immediate
response and conversations with parents
and guardians of children newly diagnosed
with hearing loss, where the goal is to
provide information and guidance suited
to the parents’ needs as early as possible.
Statped cooperates with health institutions
and municipalities to provide information
about the needs of hearing-impaired children
and informing about what kinds of guidance,
workshops and training are available.
“Good Start” (“God start”) is the name of
a series of workshops Statped offers to the
parents and guardians of children recently
diagnosed with a hearing impairment (ages 0
to 3). The workshops include different themes
related to hearing loss, impairment and
communication such as measures to promote
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hearing-speech-language development, and
training in the use of sign language.
“See my language” (“Se mitt språk”) is the
name of our sign language training programme
for parents and guardians of hearing-impaired
children or children who for other reasons live
with reduced hearing function who use sign
language to communicate. This training is
available until the hearing-impaired children/
young people are 16 years old and is divided
into training modules.
“Hear my language” (“Hør mitt språk”)
is the name of our guidance programme for
parents and guardians of hearing-impaired
children of pre-school age who want to learn
more about how they can stimulate their
children’s speech and language development.
The guidance programme is divided into
modules and last for a period of four years.
“Norwegian supported by signs”
(“Norsk med tegnstøtte”) is a programme
of workshops offered to the parents and
guardians of hearing-impaired children (age
0-6 years) and professionals within the child’s
own network. The workshop deals with how
one can bolster interaction, communication
and language through visualisation of spoken
Norwegian language using signing.
Individual parental guidance (Individuell
foreldreveiledning) is the name of our
guidance programme for parents and
guardians of children with CI or hearing aids
to help the children’s listening and speech
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development. This guidance is based on
practical and technical solutions for children
with reduced hearing and is often available in
place of or in addition to the workshops.
Individual parental guidance in sign
language (Individuell foreldreveiledning
in sign language) is offered to parents and
guardians of children with reduced hearing and
aims to help the children learn sign language.
The guidance focuses on basic communication
skills and concept formation. It is offered
alongside existing workshops.
Pupil workshops (Elevkurs) is a series of
workshops for hearing-impaired pupils. The
goal of these workshops is to assist in building
a positive identity and increasing awareness
and knowledge about one’s own impairment/
hearing. The workshop is offered to parents
and educationalist/teachers.
Full-time education. Statped offers full-time
schooling in sign language at primary and
lower secondary level. A.C. Møller School
is located in Trondheim. The application for
enrolling at the school is found at statped.no/
soknad.
Part-time education for sign language users.
Statped offers part-time education in sign
language for 12 weeks a year; shorter courses
are also conducted. This part-time education
is an alternative learning environment and is
based on an individual administrative decision
for each pupil within the municipality and an
individual agreement between the pupil’s
home school and Statped. The application for
enrolling at the school is found at statped.no/
soknad.
For further information we refer to the section
entitled What Services does Statped Offer?
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Complex Learning Disabilities
Common problems for pupils with complex
learning disabilities is the difficulty of
organizing play situations, interaction, teaching
and learning environments that meet the pupils
needs for adapted education.
The learning situation naturally gets more
complex when various impairments are
involved.
Statped offers expertise within a wide range of
learning difficulties, preferably when the child
has to live with multiple difficulties that can
hinder learning and personal development.
There are a number of different organic and/or
environmental conditions which may act as an
obstacle for learning and development. It is not
the diagnoses as such but rather the degree
and complexity of functional impairment and
unsatisfactory success of special education
measures that qualify Statped for intervening
in this work.
Statped provides services for children, young
people and adults to aid in:
•complex math learning disabilities
•language and communication problems
(including augmentative and alternative
communication)
•general learning difficulties combined with
other difficulties and impairments
•slight to moderate intellectual disabilities
combined with other impairments
•learning difficulties for minority-language
children
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•multiple-handicapped and/or serious to
very serious intellectual and developmental
disabilities
•non-verbal learning difficulties and autism
spectrum disorders
•neurobiological learning and behavior
problems like ADHD, Tourette’s etc.
•social and emotional problems of particular
complexity
Specialised services
Statped’s services in this area are usually
offered to the system as a whole in the form
of support and guidance to municipalities and
county municipalities.
Statped has interfaces for such
services through its Habilitation service
(Habiliteringstjenesten) and child/adolescent
psychiatric services. Assistance provided for
and cooperation with these agencies will be
limited to the area of special education.
For further information we refer to the section
entitled What Services does Statped Offer?
“
Early commitment
and inclusive learning
environment are key concepts
of Statped’s work.
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Speech and Language Impairment
Statped offers expertise within the field of
speech and language impairment.
There are many causes of speech and
language impairment that vary in seriousness
and manifest themselves in varying degrees.
These can be related to the ability to express
oneself through language and/or language
comprehension.
Speech and language impairment may be
caused by or be part of more extensive
functional impairments.
Specialised services
“Straightaway” (“Straks”) is the name of
Statped’s immediate response programme
for offering informative conversations with the
parents of children with cleft lip and palate.
“Straightaway” (“Straks”) can also be useful
in providing immediate response, information
and guidance for patients after a laryngectomy
(throat) or oral cavity operation.
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Statped offers expertise
within the field of speech and
language impairment.
”
For further information we refer to the section
entitled What Services does Statped Offer?
Speech and language impairment can be
congenital or they can arise after an illness or
from acquired brain injury.
Statped provides services for children, young
people and adults to aid in:
•aphasia, speech/language impairment
from acquired brain injury, due to illness or
traumatic head injury
•dyslexia (a specific reading and writing
impairment) combined with other language
difficulties
•multilingualism/minority language and
language disorders
•cleft lip and palate
•vocal impairment following laryngectomy
and oral cavity operations
•specific language disorders,
developmental problems that involve
language comprehension and/or language
production that cannot be explained by
other known factors
•fluency disorders such as stuttering and/or
cluttering
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Visual Impairment
Statped offers expertise within the field of
visual impairment. Statped intends to help
municipalities and county municipalities offer
children, young people and adults with visual
impairments the development and schooling
they are entitled to.
Visual impairment involves different kinds of
vision problems from moderately reduced sight
to blindness. This designation also includes
problems of visual interpretation.
Some pupils have visual impairments that are
combined with other functional impairments.
Visual impairment may require special help in
organizing learning and aiding functionality,
which may involve teaching programmes
for the visually-impaired and follow-up that
includes training in Braille, mobility training and
the use of technical aids.
Specialised services
“Straightaway” (“Straks”) offers immediate
response and help to children, young people
and adults recently diagnosed with blindness
or visual impairment. This service can consist
of informative conversations, examinations and
counselling and is available to users and their
care persons.
Vision examinations include sight charting
and observations taken during different
activities in varying lighting and light
conditions. These examinations indicate
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further need for adapting schooling or the
need for extra help and educational measures
and intervention. These measures can include
advice as to the suitable choice of reading
media.
Parent and child workshops (foreldre-ogbarn-kurs) are offered to the parents of small
children with visual impairments or blindness.
Topics of interest may be interaction and
communication, assistance and aids that are
available, mobility issues and organizing one’s
home and play areas. The workshops may
also include examinations and observations.
Preparing for school workshops
(skoleforberedende kurs) are offered to parents
and their visually-impaired children who will
soon start school for the first time.
Pupil workshops (elevkurs) are offered to
pupils at primary, lower secondary and upper
secondary school. These workshops focus on
training in compensating skills/techniques and
some specific school subjects. The workshop
is offered to parents and educationalist/
teachers.
Adult workshops (Kurs for voksne) are
offered to individuals with progressive visual
impairment, adults recently diagnosed with
visual impairment and other people suffering
from visual impairment who are entitled to
an education pursuant to the Education Act.
Workshops are also available for the person’s
close family and network.
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Personnel workshops (Kurs for personale)
are for PPT employees (the Educational
and Psychological Counselling Service),
kindergartens, schools and employees at adult
education centres. Topics of interest will be
compensation skills, organizing life, equality
and inclusive education and training.
Local guidance on transitions for the
visually impaired (Lokal synspedagogisk
rådgivning) concerns children, young people
and adults in kindergarten, primary and lower
secondary school where transitions are
concerned.
For further information we refer to the section
entitled What Services does Statped Offer?
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Special Education Technology
Statped intends to be a driving force behind
the development of learning resources and
technology within the field of special needs
ecucation.
Special needs education technology is
important tools in creating good learning
environments and conditions for learning for
children, young people and adults. Commercial
markets for such resources produce very little
for these small groups.
Technology and new media allow for greater
development of new learning resources and
different ways of teaching.
Statped develops and produces learning
resources for children, young people and
adults with special needs.
Knowing about existing learning resources
and acquiring experience in new technology
are decisive factors in developing skills in
special needs, and to strive for excellence
in education.
Welfare technology applied specifically to an
individual pupil for educational purposes has
become a part of modern learning resources.
These kinds of technological resources are
showing great potential for individualised and
adapted education in new learning formats and
methods.
with the opportunity to focus on frameworks
that are necessary for digital learning in
a result-oriented and systematic manner.
These conditions can help bolster the skills
and competence of teachers by increasing
access to technology and equipment,
establishing channels of communication and
offering information about new digital learning
arenas and providing guidance in the use of
technology in teaching.
Specialised services
Spreading information knowledge and
helping people understand existing learning
resources, guidance material, testing and
charting/mapping tools.
Produce special learning aids, teaching
materials and media for adapted education
such as books in Braille and other tactile
teaching materials and media, audio books,
sign-language dictionaries and other sign
language materials.
Develop and produce learning resources,
multifunctional teaching aids and digital
teaching material.
Assist the Norwegian Directorate for Education
and Training in organizing tests and
examination material for hearing-impaired,
blind and visually-impaired pupils.
Welfare technology has given Statped a bird’seye perspective of technological development
from a system-wide perspective. It provides us
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PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AND AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Sharing Information and Communication
Statped aims to be a vital and active operator
in society. The work Statped does to spread
information and promote communication
will help increase our knowledge about our
services and specialty fields. We will help
society view Statped as a coherent and
accessible public service for our users,
collaborative partners and other operators who
need Statped’s expertise.
There are many target groups Statped wants
to communicate with. Users, collaborative
partners, employees at schools and
kindergartens, decision-makers and different
operators in society all have different
expectations and needs for information.
That is why Statped strives to be as precise
as possible and make as much information
available as it can, using simple language.
Information is available from Statped in all
official languages in Norway.
statped.no is Statped’s most important
communication channel. We will try to keep
information updated and complete, and to
inform our users about our services and areas
of expertise as far as possible. Our webpages
should also be a good source of knowledge
and information that can help you prepare an
application for our services. At Statped.no
you can also order the learning resources we
develop and produce.
The preparation of general information
material in all of Statped’s different fields is
decisive in raising awareness and increasing
knowledge about our agency ‒ for our users
and collaborative partners. Statped is trying
to make this information available to everyone
based on universal design principles, as far as
this is possible.
Information should be available in many
different languages.
The Statped Library offers information
about special needs education that includes
specialist literature, research, reports, websites
and databases.
Statped’s channels of communication allow
us to operate as a centre of knowledge and
resources for our users and collaborative
partners to provide relevant and applicable
information.
StatpedMagasinet is a magazine we publish
on a regular basis that intends to illustrate and
exemplify Statped’s work and expertise. It also
intends to stimulate social discussions about
Statped’s work and specialty areas.
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www.statped.no
1 Statped North (Statped nord)
Gimleveien 68, 9019 TROMSØ
statped.nord@statped.no
Regional director Kristin Fastvold
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2 Statped Mid-Norway
(Statped midt)
Pb. 175 Heimdal, 7473 TRONDHEIM
statped.midt@statped.no
Regional director Anne Bakken
3 Statped West (Statped vest)
Pb. 6039, 5892 BERGEN
statped.vest@statped.no
Regional director Gerd Ingunn Opdal
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4 Statped Southeast
(Statped sørøst)
Pb. 4416 Nydalen, 0403 OSLO
statped.sorost@statped.no
Regional director Steinar Sandstad
Statped’s main office
Pb. 2814 Solli, 0204 OSLO
statped.hovedkontor@statped.no
Direktor Tone Mørk
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