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In October 2002 the Group invited a renowned Australian lecturer to visit Malta and give a series of talks. This was the third time the Group has invited a foreign speaker but the first time a talk was planned for Gozo as well as Malta. The seminar was made possible by the support of the Ministry of Education and the Faculty of Education and various other minor sponsorships.
We are pleased to be able to report that such was the quality of the speaker that the Minister of Education had further talks with Prof. Giorcelli who is now collaborating with Education officials to formulate her doing some professional development for the department on an annual basis. "I would like to explore the possibility of an annual teacher training course in this area that you might consider providing. The course could have cumulative levels which, annually, the first and subsequent group of teachers could work towards. There is a huge gap in our educational system which the Support group has been trying to modestly fill with meagre resources.”
An article in The Weekender supplement of the Times of Malta quoted a parent as saying that the information garnered from this Seminar was the turning point in her life.
In February 2005 we published 4,000 copies in English and Maltese of a booklet entitled Guidelines and Information for teachers. This was widely distributed to all schools by the Ministry of Education and funded solely by donations to the Group.
In the summer of 2006 a Pilot Project on Parental Skills Course was undertaken, focusing on Behaviour Modification. Whereas the cost was Lm75 per couple and child, the Group had sponsored members who then only needed to pay Lm20. This project turned out to be very successful but also quite expensive for the group.
In November 2006 we hosted an International Conference at Mater Dei Hospital, aimed at professionals in Medicine, Psychiatry as well as Social workers. We invited Prof. Eric Taylor, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, from Kings College, London who gave a half day seminar for professionals and a short talk for parents.
For the second year running, the Group also organised, a three day In Service Training Course for the Ministry of Education and received over 200 applicants for the course. This course has had a very good reponse once again as in the previous year.
The Group would has sent one of its Committee Members to attend a course in the UK for traning as a Specialist Coach Trainer in ADHD. This consisted of a two part course; the 1st part consisting of a 5 day training session after which she returned to Malta in order to take on an ADHD person, coach him for a period of 4 weeks and returned to the UK for a further 3 day session which concluded the training.
With this Specialist training programme that our Committee Member undertook the Support Group is now in a position to offer ‘coaching’ sessions for all its members, from children to adults (read more about this here...)
Future Projects
Another service the Group wishes to resume is the publication of a bi-monthly newsletter to disseminate the latest research and developments in the area of ADHD.
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