Students with specific educational support needs (special educational needs or other types) have grown by 35.5% in the last year.
The Canary Islands, which is a national and international reference in the field, currently serves 3,966 students with specific educational support needs (NEAE) with these specific resources, compared to 2,927 a year ago, and therefore, 1,019 more students.
For demographic reasons, most are in Gran Canaria (1,796) and Tenerife (1,436). The rest are distributed between Lanzarote (357), Fuerteventura (227), La Palma (107), La Gomera (23) and El Hierro (20), according to data from the Ministry of Education, Vocational Training, Physical Activity and Sports, led by Poli Suárez.
To do so with the greatest guarantees, the Ministry has 1,232 personnel, 30.92% more than a year ago, when the non-teaching staff from different backgrounds (General Technical Secretariat of the Ministry itself, General Directorate of Personnel and Aeromedical) amounted to 941 workers.
"That service that is being provided cannot be provided only with its own personnel," said Minister Poli Suárez this Friday in the Parliamentary Committee, who has been in favor of "improving and changing the regulations only in those aspects that have not been done well previously, but thinking about the benefit of the children and listening to the technical part." "We have a commitment with families and children to help them in all centers in the Canary Islands," he stressed.
Currently, the majority of human resources hired in an extraordinary way, to serve NEAE students, both in Aula Enclave, as in regular classrooms or Special Education Centers, are caregivers (772), while the rest correspond to the categories of clinical assistant (155), workshop assistant (96), physiotherapists and nurses (12 and 12), as well as ILSE and ELSE (10 and 8), who are interpreters and specialists in sign language.
NEAE and Enclave
Students with specific educational support needs (NEAE) are understood to be those who present special educational needs or other educational needs for various reasons: specific learning difficulties (DEA), attention deficit disorders with or without hyperactivity (ADHD), special personal or school history conditions (ECOPHE), late incorporation into the educational system (INTARSE) or high intellectual abilities (ALCAIN), difficulties in the field of communication and language and that may require certain supports in part or throughout their schooling.
In the attention to these students, the Aulas Enclave (AE) play an essential role, schooling units in ordinary educational centers, in which educational response is provided to these students, who require adaptations that deviate significantly from the curriculum in most or all areas or subjects, and who require extraordinary resources of difficult generalization.
Students with these conditions who can participate in activities carried out by the rest of the students in the center are enrolled in the AE.
Specifically, there are AE in ordinary centers of Infant and Primary in which students between 3 and 14 years old can be enrolled and in the IES between 14 and 21 years of age.
