Examples of Child Participation in Action
The Turning Words into Action (TWIA) project took place over 21 months during 2011-2013 in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Serbia. Children and young people with intellectual disabilities, their parents, policy makers and health and educational professionals came together with a common objective: to bring the words of the World Health Organization (WHO) Europe’s Better Health Better Lives (BHBL) Declaration to life in each of their countries.
Listening Together is intended to give a flavour of some of the methods used by the TWIA teams in Bulgaria, Serbia and the Czech Republic and some of the challenges involved in ensuring the meaningful participation of children and young adults with intellectual disabilities in all aspects of this project.
It is not intended as an exhaustive manual to follow but to inspire all those who work with children with intellectual disabilities and the policy makers who work for them to integrate child participation into their work.
In the annexe to this publication is a list of useful sources of further information about child participation. These were suggested by the project team and members of the Project Steering Committee.
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