GOVERNMENT OF ARAGON – DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, CULTURE AND SPORT – ACCESSIBILITY OF SCHOOLING FORMS FOR THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2108/19.
When you do not know the language or have communication problems, the tasks with the Administration are complicated, the insecurity to properly comply with this administrative procedure increases and the concern, too. That is why the Department of Education, Culture and Sport of the Government of Aragon has made an adaptationof allinstances of schooling to easy reading, in the languagesthat are part of the CAREI educational mediation program CAREI(Arabic, Arabic plus French, Chinese and Romanian) with the support of pictograms of ARASAAC, to help in this work to families who do not know the Spanish language. This pioneering initiative helps families, the secretariats of educational centers, the Provincial Services and the information posts enabled for this purpose on this occasion.
The guides adapted to easy reading can be downloaded free of charge from the website of the Department of Education, the CAREIwebsite, the Educational Innovation page and the Educational Centers Portal.
A great initiative in which the institutions involved claim the right to communication and cognitive accessibility for all people in equal conditions and in all contexts of daily life.
Link to the news: Aragon Today
PROCESS OF ADAPTATION OF ACCESSIBLE SCHOOLING FORMS.
The process followed to make these forms accessible started from a numerical pattern of the forms. To do this, from the final form, and, with the help of an image processing program, boxes were drawn and numbered each of the cells and boxes to be filled in each of the forms.
From this numbering, a first document is prepared in DIN-A3 with all the sheets that make up the form. Este primer documento tiene el objetivo de ser una primera guía visual que permite ver todo el formulario globalmente.
After this first work of numbering, an analysis of the form is made to plan the composition of the guide and detect those fields that are linked. That is, those that when marked or completed require that a complementary documentation be presented or an action be authorized.
Once the form has been analyzed, the elaboration of a guide begins in which each of the fields that make upthe form is broken down and establishing relationships between them. The document is written, initially, easy reading in Spanish with the support of pictograms.
In order to avoid cultural or racial biases, the characters used in the document are schematic or descriptive in gray tones without skin color.
The certain sections are zoomedin to clarify the sections or fields that compose it.
As a result of the analysis of the links between different fields that was previously carried out, those fields that are related, are grouped into different units so that it is understood that when marking or filling in a field a documentation must be presented or a procedure authorized.
Following these same steps, the guides for the different schooling forms were elaborated: Infant-Primary, Infant-Primary simultaneous siblings, Special Education andESO-Baccalaureate.
After the preparation of the guides in easy reading with the support of pictograms in Spanish, they were translated into the most common languages of migrants within Aragon, thanks to the mediation service of CAREI.
