Montessori Medical Partnership for Inclusion
Outreach and Support for an Inclusive World
Joyce Pickering, SLP, Hum. D. Receives MMPI Award for Lifetime Contributions to Montessori Medical Pedagogy
On Saturday, October 12th, 2024,
MMPI presented Dr. Pickering with our
Lifetime Legacy Award for her dedication, contributions,
and leadership in Montessori Medical Pedagogy.
Prof. Joachim Dattke Receives MMPI Award
On Saturday, June 22nd, 2024,
MMPI presented Prof. Dattke with our Lifetime Legacy Award for his dedication, contributions, and leadership in Montessori Inclusion Pedagogy.
Our Mission
Helping Montessori schools and programs around the world increase their capacity for successful and developmental inclusion.
Our Vision
Montessori and Medicine working together to include more children!
Scientific & Medical Pedagogy
Montessori education that is developmental, diagnostic and therapeutic
“The school constitutes an immense field for research; it is a “pedagogical clinic,” which, in view of its importance, can be compared to no other gathering of subjects for study. Thanks to the system of compulsory education, it gathers to itself every living human being of both sexes and of every social caste, normal and abnormal; and it retains them there, throughout a most important period of growth. This is the field, therefore, in which the culture of the human race can really and practically be undertaken; and a joint labouor of physician and teacher will sow the seed of a future human hygiene, adapted to achieve perfection in man, both as a species and as a social unit.”
[Dr. Maria Montessori, Pedagogical Anthropology, July 1913]
MMPI Initiatives and Professional Development Course Offerings
Developmental Screening in A Montessori Setting
Dalia Avello-Vega, a pediatric psychologist with Montessori training, discusses the importance of providing Universal Screening (screening all children as a regular practice) in Montessori settings.
Gain insight into how the information from screenings can guide teachers and parents as they work together to support each child appropriately. Learn how Universal Screening provides a platform for communicating more successfully with parents by providing a common language for starting difficult conversations.
MMPI’s Newest Initiative:
Communities of Practice (CoP)
A CoP is a diverse group of people who come together to work collaboratively on a common goal. They share ideas, analyze challenges and find solutions. Everyone brings unique contributions and has things to offer and to learn.
Join us as we create a community of
support for the pediatric OT’s of Ghana.
CoP- Ghana’s next meeting is scheduled for Saturday, October 26, 2024, 4 pm / GMT 7 pm EAT
TIPS & TRICKS FOR TEACHING HANDWRITING
Understanding Interventions and Therapies in a Montessori Setting
Back by popular demand!
A course for Montessori Guides, Special Education Support staff, and Intervention Specialists. Learn about the varied challenges that children with Sensory Disorders, Dyslexia, and Autism face, and how to collaborate with interventionists in your Montessori environments. The Course meets October and November 2024 and January 2025.
MMPI Organizes the 1st Cohort of English-speaking Participants in Montessori Therapy Training Presented with Interpretation into English!
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Showcase Debut: Mario Montessori’s Special Work
It is surprisingly unknown that, like his mother, Mario Montessori was an international advocate for the education of children with disabilities. His vision and support of experimental implementations of medically-enhanced and inclusive Montessori education were ahead of his time and offer us today a roadmap to a more inclusive world.
Mario Montessori was involved in two of the most important contributions to the development of a Montessori-based Special Education which were developed during the 1960’s–one in the United States (District of Columbia Society for Crippled Children, Washington, DC) and one in Germany (Aktion Sonnenschein, Munich). Through partnership with Dr. Theodor Hellbruegge (Munich) and Dr. William Argy (Washington DC), both distinguished medical doctors and medical researchers, Mario supported the re-connection of his mother’s educational legacy with the medical sciences as an aid to development and to inclusion of children with disabilities.
To honor the significant contribution of these Montessori-medical partnerships, MMPI will open its Inclusion Showcase by documenting these two integrated medical-educational projects to which Mario Montessori devoted himself.
Check out our first Showcase to see an historic video and read a scientific research study of Montessori education offered to children at the DC Society for Crippled Children, 1962-1964.
The Right of Every Child to be Included!
It is the right of every child be included as fully as possible in all aspects of life including school. We see the Montessori curriculum as the best path toward that goal because it is uniquely designed to integrate medical and educational approaches to support the inclusion of children with more diverse needs.
Access to Important Inclusion Resources
We promote access to programs and resources that help parents, teachers, medical professionals and school leaders learn more about, participate in and implement successful inclusion programs. Utilizing this leading-edge inclusion framework aids the optimal growth of all children and adolescents, those with and those without disabilities, all together in nurturing, social, learning communities.
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