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SCHULE.AT 

Focus: online information for teachers
Target users/groups: Teachers and school staff, counselling services
Support provided: Online information and support concerning SEN in Austria, Computer technology, integration and transition from school to work. You will find examples of good practice, recommendation of books, brochures, guidelines, recent weblinks and news concerning special education. (presented in German)

Contact Person: Erwin Brenner- Wolfgang Sieberer
Address:  contact via webportal
Website: http://www.schule.at/gegenstand/sonderpaed/  

SCHULPSYCHOLOGIE / BILDUNGSBERATUNG

Focus: School Psychology/Psychological (Education) Counselling Service, customer-oriented and organisation-oriented tasks (quality control)
Target users: Parents, pupils, teachers
Support provided: Psychological counselling, examinations and expert opinions psychological support, care and treatment (possibly with the use of psychotherapeutic measures) aiming at personality development, prevention, intervention and rehabilitation promotion of co-operation in school matters, psychological research on school matters, and  co-operation in the planning and co-ordination of initial, further, and in-service training activities in the school system public relations

Contact Person: Dr. Franz Sedlak, Dr. Gerhard Krötzl, Dr. Harald Aigner, Psychologists
Address: BMBWK, Schulpsychologie / Bildungsberatung, Freyung 1, A - 1010 Wien
You will find addresses of all Psychological (Education) Counselling Services by opening the website. Information is provided in German
Phone: +43/1-53120-2580 (Sedlak) +43/1-53120-2582 (Krötzl) +43/1-53120-2581 (Aigner)
Fax: +43/1-53120-2599
Email: schulpsychologie@bmbwk.gv.at
Website: www.bmbwk.gv.at/schulen/service/psych/Schulpsychologie_Kennzei4211.xml

SONDERPÄDAGOGISCHE ZENTREN

Focus: Resource centres which have to provide the necessary supply of information and materials for inclusive education.
Target users: Teachers, parents and experts
Support provided: Resource centres provide necessary supply (transfer of competence, material resources, counselling etc) for inclusive education. These centres are affiliated to special schools or to local authorities by law. Headmasters have to provide the assessment procedure and the support for children with SEN in mainstream schools.

Contact Person: Contacts are available by entering the website
Further information: Via www.cisonline.at/html/spn.htm you will get access to different web sites of "resource centres". Please click the coat of arms of the Federal States, when entering the relevant site.  
Most information is provided in German. Some resource centres are involved in Comenius Projects, so you will find summaries in English or other European languages
Email: cisnoe@asn.netway.at
Website: www.cisonline.at/html/spn.htm

ZENTRUM FÜR INKLUSIVE BETREUUNG (ZIB)

Support provided: Information, monitoring support, information material, literature, booklets In-service-training,
organisation of further training and internatiol projects.

Contact Person: Sabine Haucinger , counsellor
Address: Körblergasse 23, 8010 Graz
Phone: +43-316-345 408
Fax: +43-311 666 435 355
Email: sabine.haucinger@lsr-stmk.gv.at

HEILPÄDAGOGISCHE GESELLSCHAFT ÖSTERREICH - AGENCY FOR SPECIAL NEEDS EDUCATION IN AUSTRIA

Target groups: Teachers, medical doctors, therapists, experts, special institutions for children, young people and adults
Support Provided:Platform for national and international exchanges of information, training opportunities and research

Contact: Sekt.-Chef Dr. Heinz GRUBER (President)
Address: 2500 Siegenfeld, Badenerstraße 3/13
Phone: 02252 / 440 65
Email: heinz.gruber@gmx.net


BUNDES-BLINDENERZIEHUNGSINSTITUT - LEHRMITTELZENTRALE

Target Groups: Children and young persons with visual impairments, parents, teachers and experts
Support Provided: Early intervention, kindergarden, primary and secondary education, vocational training, rehabilitation for young adults, boarding school, support of blind and visually impaired students in mainstream schools, braille materials, journals and books, library for braille books, technical aids for the blind, specialist for physical therapy, psychology experts for therapies and for technical aids, in-service-training

Contact person: Susanne Alteneder, headmaster
Address: Wittelsbachstraße 5, A - 1020 Wien
Phone: +43 1 7280866
Fax: +43 1 7280866 275
Email: bbi@bbi.at
Website: www.bbi.at

BUNDESINSTITUT FÜR GEHÖRLOSENBILDUNG

Address: A-1130 Wien, Maygasse 25
Contact Person: Katharina Strohmayer, headmaster
Phone: + 43 1 804 63 64
Fax: + 43 1 804 63 64 59
Email: dion1.big@913033.ssr-wien.gv.at
Website: http://www.big-kids.at

BIDOK - BEHINDERTENINTEGRATION UND DOKUMENTATION

Contact Person: Volker Schönwiese, Dr.
Address: Institut für Erziehungswissenschaften der Universität Innsbruck, Liebeneggstr. 8, A-6020 Innsbruck
Phone: +43-(0)512-507-4049
Fax: +43-(0)512-507-2880
Email: Volker.Schoenwiese@uibk.ac.at

ÖSTERREICHISCHE DOWN SYNDROM GESELLSCHAFT

Target groups: all persons interested in the topic
Support Provided: contacts, information about DS, therapy, events in Austria

Contact person: Dr. Gabriele Herbertstein
Address: Lerchenfelderstr. 94, 1080 Wien
Phone: +43 1 4024531
Fax: +43 1 4024531 33
Email: office@down-syndrom.at
Website: http://www.down-syndrom.at

LEBENSHILFE ÖSTERREICH

Target groups: families, parents, people with disabilities and people interested in support for persons with disabilities
Support Provided: Lebenshilfe Österreich is an interest group for people with severe and multiple disabilities and maintenance of support services

Address: Lebenshilfe Österreich; Förstergasse 6, 1020 Wien
Phone: +43 1 812 2642
Fax: +43 1 812 2642- 85
Email: sekretariat@lebenshilfe.at
Website: http://www.lebenshilfe.at

BIZEPS-ZENTRUM FÜR SELBSTBESTIMMTES LEBEN

Target groups: People with disabilities and their families
Support Provided: Councelling and peer councelling of people with disabilities and their families in all relevant fields to support people on their way to independent living. 
 
Address: Kaiserstraße 55/3/4a, 1070 Wien
Phone: +43 1 523 8921
Fax: +43 1 523 8921-20
Email: office@bizeps.or.at 
Website: http://www.bizeps.at

INTEGRATION: ÖSTERREICH

Target groups: Parents of people with special needs
Support Provided: Integration: Österreich is a parent's initiative to suport inclusion from kindergarden to labour market, councelling service, brochures, events

Address: Tannhäuserplatz 2/1. Stock, 1150 Wien
Phone: +43 1 7891747
Fax: +43 1 7891746
Website: http://www.ioe.at


VEREIN MITEINANDER

Target groups: people with special needs and their families, experts and students in the field of SN
Support Provided: 'Verein Miteinander' is an interest group, which supports people with special needs in various fields: early intervention, individual support, job assistance, play groups, family councelling service, institute for inclusive paedagogy, brochures: 'Miteinander' and 'Behinderte in Familie, Schule und Gesellschaft', events
 
Address: Verein Miteinander, Rechte Doanaustraße 7, 4020 Linz
Phone: +43 732 782000 17
Fax: +43 732 782000 33
Email: office@miteinander.com 
Website: http://www.miteinander.com


VEREIN "INITIATIV FÜR BEHINDERTE KINDER UND JUGENDLICHE"

Target groups: children and young people with disabilities and their parents, experts
Support Provided: 'Ein Prozent' is an interest group, initiatives: councelling service, babysitting for children with disabilities, extra care for children in hospital, provision of therapeutic aid to foster independent living, peer councelling for parents and people who live/work with autistic persons
 
Contact Person: Peter Rudlof
Address: Alberstraße 8, 8010
Phone: +43 316 / 32 79 36
Fax: +43 316 / 32 79 36-21
Email:  rudlof@eu1.at  
Website: http://www.behindert.or.at/bg/institut/einpr_b.htm

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