[WP 8.0] Private Life Concepts

• to explore issues of disability, particularly relating to sex education and the abilities of people with special needs to form sexual relationships within EU member states.
• to challenge negative attitudes and stigmas around these issues within families, communities and policy makers within EU member states.
• to explore non-traditional working methods of engaging with people with special needs with regard to social skills, and devise innovative methods and techniques for including people with special needs into society.
• to provide better communication and better understanding between people with special needs and not as disabled part of community
• to help persons with special needs achieve balance and success in their Private Life
• to share learning and experiences with partners from other countries

The main question we wanted to answer: Is it possible for people with special needs to have relationships, marriages, sex and supported in having children?

Main strategies:

• Analysis of existing literature on these issues regarding the qualities of Private Life amongst disabled people.
• Private Life Quality research of people with special needs:

• interviews with persons with and without special needs; development of reporter training
• analysis of possibilities, opportunities and limitations each person with special needs has in his/her life and reflect the interaction of personal and environmental factors;
• assessment of Quality of Personal Life in the areas of Being, Belonging, and Becoming;
• assessment of persons with special needs Achievement and Enjoyment  in each of four life aspects: Work, Family, Friends and Self;
• assessment decision-making and opportunities of persons with special needs.

• Designing Model of Successful Private Life of persons with special needs.

• Designing on-line blog focused on balance and success in the Private Life of persons with special needs. Publish results of research and Model of Successful Private Life of persons with disabilities
• Making workshops on advising and coaching for life balance of persons with special needs  and test methodological approach on Model of Successful Private Life
• Using theatre and other creative arts to explore these issues with people with special needs and the wider community.
• Training persons with special needs to be reporters.

For more material go to [WP 8.1] Work Results and Media

Expected results:

• Participants from Lithuania, Netherlands, Germany, Portugal, Sweden, Serbia and United Kingdom gained comprehensive theoretical and practical information on Model of Successful Private Life
• Participants were expected to develop their intercultural competence, to widen understanding and developing skills on balance and success in the Private Life in various European countries; developing media and ICT competence in creating content for on-line blogs; developing competences in areas of their Private Life.

• Through the blog we aim to reach vast number of people to whom we could promote ideas of Model of Successful Private Life of persons with special needs.
• We created theatre- and arts-based products that enable people with special needs and members of the wider community to see, experience and understand the issues at hand
• The reflective sessions and final evaluation allowed participants to continuously reflect on their learning process and the consequent results.
• We have provided self-assessment tools, based on key-competences for Life-long learning, where participants can identify the outcome of their learning and the results of self-assessment