Wiener Heilstättenschule

The Heilstättenschule Wien is an institution for the school care of children who for health reasons cannot follow the lessons in their school for a longer period of time. It is part of the public school system and one of eleven branches of the special school system in Austria. The school has existed since 1948, but the idea is older.

history

On the occasion of the establishment of a separate ward for children in 1912 at the General Hospital in Vienna , university professor Doctor Clemens Freiherr von Pirquet called for school lessons to be introduced for children admitted to the hospital. This idea was realized in 1917 by the war disabled teacher Hans Radl at the suggestion of university professor Hans Spitzy in the orthopedic hospital (at that time still in Gassergasse in Margareten , today in Speisinger Straße in Hietzing ).

In 1926 this ward school was granted public rights, and in 1948 all such school classes in the Viennese hospitals were merged to form the “ special school for boys and girls in sanatoriums ”. The Heilstättenschule was anchored in the School Act in 1962. Since 1985, the Wiener Heilstättenschule has also given home tuition for oncologically ill students.

In 1994 the first psychagogue of the Vienna Heilstättenschule was assigned to service, in 2000 another followed. In the same year, home tuition for non-oncologically ill children was started.

Since 2001 there has been the “ training to become a qualified sanatorium pedagogue ”.

tasks

In cooperation with the teachers of the regular school and the doctors of the treating hospital , the sanatorium pedagogues endeavor to avoid learning deficits in the children or at least to keep them as low as possible and thus to prevent the possible loss of a school year. However, medical care and healing of the child has absolute priority.

The Vienna Heilstättenschule finds electronic support in this task at the Sankt Anna-Spital through the project “ E-learning for children with cancer ” presented in May 2001 . The children can use computers and webcams to take part in lessons in their home school and maintain contact with school friends.

In addition to imparting knowledge, it is also part of the remit of the sanatorium educators to take away or at least reduce the children's fears and above all homesickness.

In 2006, the Vienna Heilstättenschule looked after around 5,000 students in 34 classes (the term class is relative: if the spatial situation of the hospital does not permit, lessons take place in the sickroom) at 11 hospitals in Vienna. If the child is absent from his home school for a longer period of time, it will be assessed by the teacher from the Vienna Heilstättenschule. The school message at the end of the semester or the certificate at the end of the school year is issued by the home school.

Teachers

Due to the special situation in which the children find themselves, they are taught by specially trained teachers, the so-called sanatorium pedagogues.

The academy course for “ training to become a qualified sanatorium pedagogue ” is open to all teachers, provided they have already completed a full compulsory school teaching degree.

Psychagogue

Psychagogues use knowledge from pedagogy , depth psychology and psychotherapy to support children and adolescents in coping with extreme situations.

The prerequisite for training as a psychagogue is at least six years of professional experience as a compulsory school teacher.

Working group for sanatorium education

At the first meeting of sanatorium teachers in Graz in 1983 , discussions were held, among other things, on establishing a nationwide working group. This was set up in 1984 by the Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture.

The tasks of this working group include, among other things, advising the ministry on questions of patient education, but also informing colleagues in the federal states about important innovations.

Nationwide training days are regularly organized for the health facility teachers.

UNESCO Charter

The “ Charter for Children in Hospitals ” adopted by the 1st European “ Children in Hospitals ” conference in Leiden ( Netherlands ) in May 1988 also grants children in hospitals the right to schooling in point 7.

Locations

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The directorate of the “ Heilstättenschule der Stadt Wien ” is located at Huglgasse 1–3, 1150 Vienna. Exposures are in the following hospitals:

• Wilhelminenspital (5 classes)
• AKH -University Children's Clinic (5 classes)
• AKH University Children's Clinic - Curative Education (3 classes)
• AKH University Clinics - Green Bed Tower (3 classes)
• AKH child and youth neuropsychiatry (2 classes)
• St. Anna Children's Hospital (4 classes)
• Rudolfstiftung Hospital (1 class)
• Gottfried von Preyer'sches Children's Hospital (3 classes)
• Social Medicine Center East - Donauspital (4 classes)
• Accident Hospital Vienna Lorenz Böhler (1st class)
• Meidling Accident Hospital (1 class)
• Orthopedic Hospital Speising (2 classes)
• Neuropsychiatric Department for Children and Adolescents (2 classes)

Other federal states

Starting from Vienna, the idea of ​​school care for children during their hospital stay was also adopted by the other federal states. Especially after it was anchored in the Austrian School Act in 1962, a wave of founders followed.

Burgenland

The first class of sanatoriums in Burgenland opened in Oberwart at the beginning of the 1988/1989 school year . In 1990 the sanatorium class followed in the hospital of the Barmherzige Brüder Eisenstadt (children's and youth department)

• Landeskrankenhaus Eisenstadt - Hospital of the Brothers of Mercy
• Oberwart specialty hospital

Carinthia

In 1963 Klagenfurt received its own sanatorium school.

• Heilstättenschule I SPZ for curative and sick pedagogy (General Hospital Klagenfurt)
• Heilstättenschule II Center for the Promotion of the Disabled (Klagenfurt)
• Medical facility class of the German Order Hospital (Friesach)
• Sanatorium class A. Ö. Hospital Spittal an der Drau GmbH
• Medical facility classes Villach Regional Hospital (Villach)

Lower Austria

In 1999 an independent health clinic school was established in Wiener Neustadt .

• Sanatorium classes at the State Hospital Sankt Pölten
• Sanatorium class General Public Hospital Amstetten
• Special education classes for the Hinterbrühl regional special school
• Sanatorium classes at the Hermann Gmeiner School
• Sanatorium class Waldviertelklinikum Horn
• Sanatorium class of Lower Austria Landesnervenklinik Mauer
• Sanatorium class General Public Hospital Krems
• Medical facility class of the State Clinic Weinviertel Mistelbach
• Health resort classes Landesklinikum Thermenregion Mödling
• Sanatorium class General Public Hospital Scheibbs
• State hospital in Tulln
• Heilstättenschule Landesklinikum Wiener Neustadt
• Special education classes in the forest school , a special school for physically handicapped children in Wiener Neustadt
• Sanatorium class General Public Hospital Zwettl

Upper Austria

In 1993 an independent sanatorium school was set up in Linz .

• Heilstättenschule Linz, special hospital (directorate)
• Sanatorium classes Wagner Jauregg State Neurological Clinic (Linz)
• Sanatorium classes Hospital of the Sisters of Mercy (Linz)
• Sanatorium classes for the State Children's Hospital Linz
• State hospital in Steyr
• State hospital Vöcklabruck medical facility class
• Medical facility classes General Hospital Wels

Salzburg

In the Children's Hospital and Children's Surgery in the City of Salzburg , school-age children were taught from September 1970. The “ Public Hospitals Special School for Boys and Girls at the Salzburg State Hospital ” was established in September 1973. 16 teachers work here.

• Sanatorium School at the State Hospitals Salzburg (Directorate)
• Sanatorium class Christian-Doppler Klinik (Salzburg)
• Sanatorium classes Institute for Curative Education Salzburg (Salzburg)
• Medical facility classes at Cardinal Schwarzenberg's Hospital (Schwarzach)

Styria

On the Stolzalpe in Murau , children were taught in a hospital for the first time outside of Vienna in 1920. The Children's Hospital in Graz followed in 1943 . In 1956, an independent sanatorium school was built on the Stolzalpe.

• Sanatorium classes curative educational station of the province of Styria (Graz)
• Sanatorium classes at the Sigmund Freud Clinic Graz
• Sanatorium classes Graz - University Hospital
• State hospital in Deutschlandsberg
• Health facility classes at the Leoben Regional Hospital
• Heilstättenschule Stolzalpe, Special Education Center Murau

Tyrol

In 1952, children admitted to hospital were taught at the Innsbruck University Hospital for the first time. In Innsbruck these are currently around 700 to 800 children a year.

• Heilstättenschule University Clinic Innsbruck
• Sanatorium class in the Schwaz district hospital

Vorarlberg

In 1988, an independent healing school was built in Feldkirch .

• State hospital Bregenz health facility class
• Healing facility school in the CARINA curative education center
• Sanatorium class at the Feldkirch regional hospital

Web links

• Heilstättenschule Vienna
• Orthopedic Spital Speising - School in the hospital
• Heilstättenschule University Clinic Innsbruck
• Heilstättenschule Burgenland
• Heilstättenschule Salzburg
• Stolzalpe Hospital School (history)
• Working group for the health clinic school
• Graz sanatorium classes

Footnotes

1. ^ Archive report of the town hall correspondence from January 11, 1999: 50 years of Heilstättenschule in Vienna
2. ^ Archive report of the town hall correspondence from May 2, 2001: Laska presents e-learning for children with cancer
3. ^ Archive report of the town hall correspondence of February 13, 2006: School in the hospital secures the future of the children
4. ↑ St. Anna Children's Hospital : The Heilstättenschule in the St. Anna Children's Hospital
5. ↑ Rudolf Ekstein Center: Psychagogics ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ Community Integration Special Education: Working Group for Sanatorium Education ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ WG Heilstättenpädagogik ( Memento of the original from October 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ Annual report of the Vienna Heilstättenschule school year 2001/2002 ( Memento of the original from October 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 561 kB) 
9. ↑ ^{a b c d e} History of medical school instruction ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
10. ^ History of the Heilstättenschule at the University Clinic for Pediatrics in Salzburg
11. ↑ School profile. In: Heilstättenschule Salzburg. Retrieved May 12, 2019 . 
12. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
13. ↑ Heilstättenschule University Clinic Innsbruck