In 2020, two specialized educators were recruited as part of an inclusion unit.
They work with children with a disorder or disability at school and at the leisure center in Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire.
An "emotional discharge" room was installed in September 2021 in the Théodore Monod primary school.
Four other emotional unloading rooms will be inaugurated for the start of the 2022 school year: one in each school group.
A respite break is also envisaged one Saturday morning per month.
The balance is considered positive.
To help relieve the tensions of children with disorders or disabilities, the town of Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire, south-east of Nantes, has been experimenting since September with the installation of an "emotional discharge" room in Théodore Monod primary school.
Inside, sensory hut, punching-ball, noise-canceling headphones... These children, suffering from a hearing or visual impairment, autism or intellectual deficiency, can temporarily isolate themselves during lessons and recess to calm down or let off steam.
A first in the Nantes conurbation.
This room is part of the broader framework of the city's inclusion cell.
This is a device launched in 2017 whose objective is to give these children an almost ordinary extracurricular and extracurricular experience.
To do this, two specialized educators, Marine Gadois and Frédéric Richard, have been recruited.
Their role is to help the coordinators of the five school groups and the city's leisure center to “channel” these children.
Train staff
“We have found that 'extraordinary' children who do the same activities at lunchtime as 'ordinary' children are sometimes unmanageable in class in the afternoon.
We have therefore adapted our activities, ”says Laurent Turquois, center right mayor of the town.
Before the arrival of the specialized educators, two teachers had taken sick leave after difficulties in managing children.
“The staff is not sufficiently trained in their education.
The sector is not sufficiently well known or remunerated,” underlines the mayor of San Sebastián.
For the inclusion cell, the city invests 3,500 euros annually in teaching materials, in addition to the two salaries for specialized educators.
Out of 1,930 school children, twenty-seven are now taken care of directly by the city.
These are mainly students in Ulis, localized unit for inclusive education, at the Théodore Monod elementary school.
"The town hall makes up for the shortcomings"
Magali Badonnel is the mother of Ewenn, a little boy with "autism spectrum disorder" and educated in CE1 at the Théodore Monod school.
The family moved into the city this summer without being aware of the system put in place by the town hall.
Thanks to the inclusion unit, her son benefits from the support of one of the educators specializing in extra-curricular time.
He then took advantage of the same sporting activities as the other students at the school, which "wasn't the case before when we lived in Paris".
The “emotional discharge” room also allows her son to gain concentration once in class.
When Magali picks up her son from school, the specialized educators give her a look back at Ewenn's day.
“They tell me that he has made a lot of progress since the start of the school year, that he is more accepting of the rules and the constraints of the lessons,” she rejoices.
The mother is "pleasantly surprised" by the city's initiatives on disability.
“We are often the ugly duckling with the disabled child who poses a problem.
In general, in non-specialized schools, we do everything to take our child out of school, ”she breathes.
"It's fishing at the level of national education and the ministry of health at school and the town hall makes up for the shortcomings," she laments.
A reinforced device
The mayor of San Sebastián will travel to Vannes on April 2 to be inspired by the first inclusive playground in France.
For the next school year, the city plans to open an “emotional discharge” room in each of its schools.
All students will have access to it during recess.
The town hall is also considering the creation of a "respite break", on the model of those for people with Alzheimer's.
The project, still under discussion, would consist of caring for children with disabilities one Saturday morning per month to give more free time to the families concerned.
“The children would be looked after by
animators who know them and who know how to manage them”, assures Laurent Turquois.
"We would have needed it," laments Ewenn's mother.
She continues: “When my son was in kindergarten, he had a lot of trouble sleeping.
With my husband, we worked full time and we were in a constant state of exhaustion”.
Laurence Garnier, senator for Loire-Atlantique and municipal councilor of Nantes, welcomes the inclusion system.
“We want to be inspired by what works,” she explains.
Eventually, she wants to bring the project to Nantes schools.
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