Model center for special pedagogic counseling

The Centre for Special Educational Counselling (Special Educational Counselling Centre) at the Institute of Special Educational Studies is a model workplace of the Institute. It provides special-educational counselling, professional care and special-educational intervention to disadvantaged children, youth and their parents. Through outpatient care, short-term training stays and visits to the environment in which the child lives, it provides diagnostic, therapeutic, stimulating, re-educational, corrective and other specialized forms of intervention and assistance. At the same time, it serves as a training workplace for students of special education at the Faculty of Education of Comenius University in Bratislava. The Model Centre of Special Education Counselling at the Institute of Special Education Studies is equipped with a camera system that enables seamless and automatic video recording of therapeutic sessions in the model playroom for the purpose of later detailed analysis and processing. The camera system is provided by a quartet of conveniently located networked webcams with computerized motion control capability. The images from all cameras are recorded in digital form directly by the computer. The system can be expanded with additional cameras if necessary. In the model centre of special pedagogical counselling at the institute there is also a wide range of modern and alternative aids, techniques, special devices, multimedia, Montessori material, etc. There are several computers with internet connection with special hardware and software available for students at the institute to serve the needs of students with disabilities.

Contact persons

Doc. PaedDr. Terézia Harčaríková, PhD.

Doc. PaedDr. Jana Lopúchová, PhD.

PaedDr. Margaréta Osvaldová, PhD.

Mgr. Zuzana Ivanová, PhD.

Mgr. Kristína Tkáčová, PhD.

Mgr. Lenka Nadányi, PhD.