1. Slovakia Some facts about it

2. Slovakia 'Slovensko' is the Slovak name of Slovakia, a small country in Central Europe Slovak Republic is a member of the European Union since May 2004,also a member of NATO, WTO, OECD, OSCE, and other international organizations. Population si over 5 milions The largest city is its capital - Bratislava

3. Location of Slovakia in EU

5. Flag and shield of Slovakia

6. History Before the 5th century the territory of modern-day Slovakia was settled by Celts The Slavic population settled in the territory of Slovakia in the 5th century In the early 10th century, the Magyars gradually occupied the territory of the present-day Slovakia In 1918, Slovakia joined the regions of Bohemia and neighbouring Moravia to form Czechoslovakia The end of Communist rule in Czechoslovakia in 1989, during the peaceful Velvet Revolution, was followed once again by the country's dissolution, this time into two successor states. Slovakia and the Czech Republic went their separate ways after January 1, 1993

7. Demographics and politic The majority of the inhabitants of Slovakia are ethnically Slovak (86%). Hungarians are the largest ethnic minority (9.7%) and are concentrated in the southern regions of the country The official state language is Slovak, a member of the Slavic languages The majority of Slovak citizens (68.9 %) identify themselves with the Roman Catholicism Slovakia is a parliamentary democratic republic with a multi- party system The Slovak head of state is the president, elected by direct popular vote for a five-year term. Most executive power lies with the head of government, the prime minister.

8. Geography The Slovak landscape is noted primarily for its mountainous nature, with the Carpathian Mountains extending across most of the northern half of the country. Amongst them are the high peaks of the Tatra mountains,where the High Tatras are home to many scenic lakes and valleys as well as the highest point in Slovakia, the Gerlachovský štít at 2,655 metres. Major Slovak river is the Danube The Slovak climate is temperate, with relatively warm summers and cold, cloudy and humid winters

9. Tourism Because it is in Central Europe and has been inhabited for a relatively long time, Slovakia features interesting natural landscapes, mountains, deep caves, medieval castles and towns, folk architecture, spas and ski resorts

10. Trnava This historical city (established in 9th century) is situated in the western part of Slovakia; 110 km from Vienna. In Trnava live 70 000 inhabitants.

11. Culture You could see our Gallery, the Theatre, or the Museum!

12. Sport You can play football, baseball, Ice or Inline hockey, do aikido in Trnava, if you want...

13. Trnava university – Faculty of education

14. Was established by the Trnava Senate on 1 September 1992 as one of two faculties of the renewed Trnava University The Faculty of Education professes the Christian and humanist traditions The Faculty offers a complete education of primary school teachers in accredited courses of study; in the course of their study, students will be able to acquire a well-balanced quantity of specialist knowledge, instruction in pedagogy and psychology, and practical skills The Faculty has a lot of modern technical equipment, laboratories, studios, classrooms with audiovisual technology, a qualified academic staff

15. The integration in Slovakia since the school year 1991/1992: 1.The integrated kindergarten in Nitra – in this case they educate children with hearing handicap among intact kids; similar kindergarten is also in Trenčín. 2.There is experimental kind of the integrated kindergarten In Bratislava – education of children with speech impediment in common kindergarten. 3.The kindergarten in Trnava is visited by children with normal intellect but also by kids who are mentally disturbed. 4.Primary school in Nitra – among pupils of one common class is one integrated child with physical handicap.

16. 5)There is an inverted integration, where intact children are together with hearing handicaped kids in special school, in kindegarten in Bratislava, Hrdlickova street. 6)Integrated nursery school in Children centre. 7)Integrated nursery school in Nitra. In this case there are hearing handicapped students educated in the normal nursery school. 8)Integrated nursery school for children with speech defects, Dlhe Diely, Bratislava. They have 7 integrated classes for children with different kinds of speech defects together with intact children.

17. Contribution of itegration for handicapped children: They have better ability of watching, imitation and communication with intact children – better developing of friendly relationships with them. It means that they use their own experiences. Cognitive contribution is realized from enhanced wariness to increased motivation and learnig. If is the beginning of integration already in preschool age it is easier to integrate hanicapped people to the future integrated experiences in all their life.

18. Contribution of itegration for intact children They learn to understand hardship of their handicapped contemporaries. They are able to better understanding of differencies among all people. They acquire sensitivenessfor need of others. They find out that everybody is able to overcome difficulties and to reach the success – it´s motivating for them. According to the study, we can say that intact children have more possitive attitude to people who are different than they are.

19. Contribution for teachers: Teaching in integrated class helps teachers learn to respect variousness of styles, individual and specific needs of learning of all pupils. They better identify reasons of problems with learning in their future experiences. While they have to make up new individual plans for each student they are still in touch with new teaching methods

20. Intergration in Primary schools in Slovakia The fourth part

21. Specially integrated classes in ordinary schools in 2006

22. Handicap Number of schools / number of pupils togetherNursery schools Primar y schools Special primary schools Trainin g schools Secondar y Grammar schools Syndrome of autism 3/212/150/01/60/0 Mental handicap 194/470610/820/0184/46240/0 Hearing defect 1/00/01/250/0 Sight defect8/997/911/70/0 Speech defect 6/3142/394/2750/0 Physical defect 9/1754/423/1132/200/0 Behavioural handicap of growing 1/100/01/100/0 Learning handicap of growing 61/16660/061/16660/0

23. Individually integrated pupils with special needs in ordinary schools in 2006

24. Kind of school Number of individually integrated pupils with special needs togetherSyndrome of autism Mental handicap Hearing defect Sight defect Speech defect Physical defect Growing handicaps Nursery schools 61828153334314214673 Primary schools 130747436312711956969207287 Secondary Grammar schools 13200112102278 Training schools 16420086420183856

25. From the previous tables it is obvious that the number of pupils who are individually integrated in the ordinary classes is significantly higher than in the ordinary classes. The number of integrated students has fallen little over the years

26. Primary school of A. Kubinu in Trnava

27. The school for blind pupils or pupils with the poor eye-sight

28. Conclusion The most important tasks that we have found to be fulfilled as soon as possible are: The end of the long lasted problems in school reformation To increase the number of specially qualified personnel To rise up cooperation between schools and other institution (Educational and Psychological Advisory Service) To omit the gap in legislation To break up obstacles in public system information