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T-GuIDE Videos

Ivor Ambrose — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 22:21:00 GMT

The T-Guide project produced 3 videos introducing the project and demonstrating two testing phases of the tourist guide training. The videos were made to enhance the dissemination of the project objectives, illustrating some of the working methods and practical results.

The T-Guide project produced 3 videos introducing the project and demonstrating two testing phases of the tourist guide training.

The videos were made to enhance the dissemination of the project objectives, illustrating some of the working methods and practical results.

The videos also feature in the T-GuIDE e-learning course offered at www.accesstraining.eu

Video 1. First introduction to T-GuIDE by Ivor Ambrose, ENAT (June 2014)

Video 2. Introduction to T-Guide by Lisa Zieler, FEG. Recorded in Graz, Austria and The British Museum, London, UK. July and December 2014

Video 3. T-GuIDE Training Video recorded in Riga, Latvia, with Tourist Guide, Gita Vigule, October 2014.

T-GuIDE Easy-Reading Flyer: Do You Like to Travel?

Ivor Ambrose — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 20:20:00 GMT

An illustrated 2-page flyer about travel, addressed to visitors with learning difficulties. A tourist guide can show you very old buildings, statues and places in the town or the countryside. You will have a nice trip with a Tourist Guide!

Image from the T-GuIDE easy-reading flyer

An illustrated 2-page flyer about travel, addressed to visitors with learning difficulties.

A tourist guide can show you very old buildings, statues and places in the town or the countryside.

You will have a nice trip with a Tourist Guide!

Download the flyer in PDF format from the right-hand panel in seven languages.

T-GuIDE Booklet

Ivor Ambrose — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 08:50:00 GMT

The T-GuIDE Booklet is a 4-page, print-friendly, digital document describing the aims, the work and the products of the T-GuIDE project on tourist guide training for guiding visitors with intellectual and/or learning difficulties.

The T-GuIDE Booklet is a 4-page, print-friendly, digital document describing the aims, the work and the products of the T-GuIDE project on tourist guide training for guiding visitors with intellectual and/or learning difficulties.

Download the Booklet in seven language versions from the right-hand panel in PDF format.

T-GuIDE Project Postcard

Ivor Ambrose — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 12:18:00 GMT

View and download the T-GuIDE project postcard in seven languages.

View and download the T-GuIDE project postcard.
Alternative language versions can be downloaded in PDF from the right hand panel.

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T-Guide D15(a). Report on National Expert Interviews and Focus Groups

Ivor Ambrose — Sun, 20 Jul 2014 15:27:00 GMT

T-GuIDE Project Report. During in-depth interviews and focus groups experts in the T-Guide field highlighted vital suggestions, what kind of knowledge, abilities, skills might be trained during course for tourist guides, who would like to work with people with intellectual disabilities. Experts suggest that trainings might consist of theoretical inputs and practical exercises. Additionally, skills and experience of candidate for Tourist Guide for intellectually disabled people might be proven either through training, work experience or/and online exam. The interviews were carried out by T-GuIDE partners from France, Spain, Austria, Belgium, United Kingdom, Latvia and Italy. (T-GuIDE Project Deliverable 15(a)).

T-GuIDE Project Report.

During in-depth interviews and focus groups experts in the T-Guide field highlighted vital suggestions, what kind of knowledge, abilities, skills might be trained during course for tourist guides, who would like to work with people with intellectual disabilities.

Experts suggest that trainings might consist of theoretical inputs and practical exercises.

Additionally, skills and experience of candidate for Tourist Guide for intellectually disabled people might be proven either through training, work experience or/and online exam.

The interviews were carried out by T-GuIDE partners from France, Spain, Austria, Belgium, United Kingdom, Latvia and Italy.

The Report is part of the T-GuIDE project no. 527776-LLP-1-2012-1-IT-LEONARDO-LMP in the framework of the EU Leonardo da Vinci Programme.

Table of Contents

QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS RESULTS……4

SUMMARY AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE T-GUIDE PROJECT 26

Knowledge and abilities needed… 26
Personal skills needed……27
Recommendations for didactic methods… 27

Download the Report in PDF format from the right-hand column.

T-GuIDE D15(b). Report: Overall Desk Research on situation of tourist guides in context of working with people with intellectual disabilities and/or learning difficulties

Ivor Ambrose — Sat, 19 Jul 2014 15:30:00 GMT

T-GuIDE Project Report. Overall Desk Research is a form of state-of-the-art, looking at the situation of tourist guides in the context of working with people with intellectual disabilities and/or learning difficulties in partners' countries: Italy, Austria, Belgium, France, Latvia, Poland, Spain and United Kingdom. At the end of the document is a bibliography of recommended reading in the field. (T-GuIDE Project Deliverable 15(b)).

T-GuIDE Project Report.

Overall Desk Research is a form of state-of-the-art, looking at the situation of tourist guides in the context of working with people with intellectual disabilities and/or learning difficulties in partners' countries: Italy, Austria, Belgium, France, Latvia, Poland, Spain and United Kingdom. At the end of the document is a bibliography of recommended reading in the field.

The Report is part of the T-GuIDE project no. 527776-LLP-1-2012-1-IT-LEONARDO-LMP in the framework of the EU Leonardo da Vinci Programme.

The authors of the national Desk Researches are:

Adoración Tercedor, Spain
Eftychia Kalamboukidou, Armelle Villepelet Ferenczi, France
Iveta Neimane, Latvia
Jacqui Hogan, United Kingdom
Joanna Szczecinska, Poland
Johanna Ilkow, Austria
Kathleen Polders, Belgium
Lorenzo Sirocco, Italy.

Table of Contents
1) AIM OF REPORT…5
2) SHORT INFORMATION ABOUT TOURIST GUIDES IN PARTNER COUNTRIES ...11
3) EDUCATION SYSTEM OF TOURIST GUIDES IN PARTNER COUNTRIES:
SCHOOLS, TRAINING, CERTIFICATION….20
4) EDUCATIONAL AND EMPOWERING SUPPORT OF TOURIST GUIDES TO WORK WITH PEOPLE (CLIENTS) WITH INTELLECTUAL AND/OR LEARNING DISABILITIES…33
5) EXISTING EU PROJECTS (STRUCTURAL AND INTERNATIONAL) FOCUSED ON PROVIDING THE TOURIST SERVICES FOR PEOPLE/CLIENTS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES AND/OR LEARNING DIFFICULTIES,,,44
6) CASE STUDIES CONCERNING TOURIST GUIDES WORKING/PROVIDING SERVICES FOR PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES AND/OR LEARNING DIFFICULTIES…46
7) GENERAL CONCLUSIONS…53
8) POSSIBLE/ACCESSIBLE BIBLIOGRAPHY…56

Download the Report in PDF format from the right-hand panel.