Attitudes of pre-service kindergarten teachers towards children with special educational needs

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tsz-ying Poon
Keyword(s):  
Educational Needs ◽  
Kindergarten Teachers ◽  
Special Educational Needs

scholarly journals Online learning in kindergarten during Covid-19: Teachers’ experience and perception in Italy

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabrina Panesi ◽  
Chiara Fante ◽  
Lucia Ferlino
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Educational Needs ◽  
Kindergarten Teachers ◽  
Educational Context ◽  
Special Educational Needs

Before pandemic, online learning was not widespread in the Italian educational context with preschoolers. This study investigates how a sample of 143 Italian kindergarten teachers describe their experiences and perception in conducting online learning during Covid-19 lockdown. Findings revealed that collaboration among teachers seems to be one of the most important elements to guarantee quality online learning, as well as the emotional and relational dimensions that involve kindergarten teachers and children with their families as “mediator”, especially with children with Special Educational Needs (SEN). Although this study was conducted in an emergency period, these findings may have important implications in online learning with preschoolers also during the post pandemic period.

scholarly journals Psychological and pedagogical characteristics of a future first grader: kindergarten and school continuity problems

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Svetlana Shabas ◽  
Nina Vasilyeva
Keyword(s):  
School Readiness ◽  
First Graders ◽  
Educational Needs ◽  
Kindergarten Teachers ◽  
Educational Organizations ◽  
Special Educational Needs ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Sharing Responsibility ◽  
High Level ◽  
School Maladjustment

The article examines the psychological and pedagogical characteristics of a first grader as a continuity problem indicator between preschool and primary school education levels. The increase in the number of children with special educational needs, inclusion, and modernization of education put children, teachers, and parents in new socio-psychological conditions in which kindergarten graduates may have difficulties in passing the educational route. In preschool and school educational organizations, there are differences in the assessment of the child's psychophysical development specifics, there is a mismatch in the leading education and training lines. The authors show that the continuity problem is currently very relevant and contains problems of an organizational and methodological nature, sharing responsibility problems between a child, family, society, and educational organizations, as well as cooperation problems of all participants in the children transition from one education stage to another. According to the research data, more than a third of future first-graders may fall into the risk group for possible school maladjustment. More than half of children have impaired hand-to-eye coordination and a high level of anxiety. The revealed relative disadvantage indicators of the children's psychophysical development indicate the need for meaningful cooperation between kindergarten teachers, educational institutions, and parents to create conditions for success in the continuity of various stages for adequate readiness for school for each child. The main areas of interaction can be the kindergarten teachers-psychologists training in early prevention of school maladjustment, psychological and pedagogical education of parents of future first-graders on school readiness, and increasing the kindergarten teachers competence in working with children with special educational needs.

scholarly journals Inclusion of Intellectually Disabled Children in Early Childhood Education in Hungary in the Light of the Law

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Krisztina Kovács
Keyword(s):  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Census Data ◽  
Professional Competence ◽  
Educational Needs ◽  
Kindergarten Teachers ◽  
Disabled Children ◽  
Special Educational Needs ◽  
Intellectually Disabled ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
The Disabled

The study commences with the introduction of the major Hungarian and international tendencies and the legal background of the inclusive education of children with special educational needs in Hungary, then it presents the strategies and tasks of kindergarten teachers in terms of the inclusive kindergarten education of intellectually disabled children, based on the results of our own empirical study. The actuality of the topic is demonstrated by the fact that, according to the statistical data, there is a large number of children with special educational needs in the mainstream kindergartens, which has an impact on the expectations in connection with the professional competence of the kindergarten teachers. According to the 2011 census data, 10% of the Hungarian population is intellectually disabled. The Central Statistics Bureau’s data published in 2018 shows that in 2016, 4.3% of the population belonged to the disabled population. From 2011 to 2016, the number of people with intellectual disabilities increased by 25% and it had exceeded 50,000 people.

THE CHALLENGES OF TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGES TO STUDENTS WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS

2020 ◽  
pp. 115-122
Author(s):  
Elena N. Gur'yanova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Learned Helplessness ◽  
Educational Needs ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Technical Equipment ◽  
Special Educational Needs ◽  
Right To Education ◽  
Formal Approach ◽  
Program Compliance ◽  
Special Health

A modern university answering the challenges of the society does not remain aloof to introduce certain inclusive practices. Currently, the legislation of the Russian Federation clearly distinguishes between the concepts of “Disability”, “Special health opportunities “and” Special educational needs”. However, there is a demand to combine all three terms into one, that is “Special educational needs”. The author considers this substitution to be unlawful. The article attempts to analyze each term from the point of view of prospects for each group of students to get higher education, taking into account the peculiarities of their psychophysical development. In addition, the author reviews some difficulties (insufficient technical equipment of the classrooms, learned helplessness of students, lack of knowledge about various nosological groups of disabled people, etc.) and ways to overcome these and other problems such as development of an adapted educational program, compliance with the principles of health conservation, psychological readiness of the teaching staff to work with such students. The author draws the conclusion that only training of teachers and the creation of a special educational space, the inadmissibility of a formal approach to the integration of students with special educational needs can contribute to the successful provision of their right to education.

SPECIFIC FEATURES OF ALTERNATIVE COMMUNICATION WITH CHILDREN WITH SENSORY DISORDERS AND MULTIPLE DISABILITIES

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 1027-1030
Author(s):  
Gergana Todorova - Markova
Keyword(s):  
Sign Language ◽  
Mutual Influence ◽  
Multiple Disabilities ◽  
Educational Needs ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Special Educational Needs ◽  
Alternative Communication ◽  
Sensory Disorders ◽  
Communication Situations

The article is focused on the communication with children with special educational needs. The main topic is alternative communication with children with sensory disorders and multiple disabilities. It explores the phenomenon of communication, citing current definitions developed by a number of authors, which place the emphasis on different aspects of this complex and multilayered process, with a special focus on alternative communication with the groups of special needs children mentioned in the title.The issue is investigated from a special pedagogical and from a social perspective.The author is especially interested in the exploration of the multiple strata of communication (the universal, functional and specific levels). Apart from the different forms, contents, methods and means of communication (the last of which is most commonly discussed in Bulgaria), the article is focused primarily on the important methodological issues related to this topic.One of these basic questions of methodology is the attempt not to place at the center of this process its bi-directional nature, its algorithm or code (sign language, Braille writing system, etc.), but instead to focus on the personalities of those involved in the interaction, their initiative, relationship and goals manifested in different communication situations (mutual influence, emancipation and therapy). Particular emphasis is given to therapy, i.e. the way of influencing the communication behavior of children with sensory disorders and multiple disabilities. It is not viewed as a unilateral process (stimulus-response), but as an interactive one, based on mutual influence. The relationship between the communicators is of utmost significance.Communication is characterized by a number of specific features. Those can mostly be found in the specificity of the communication situations (for example the interactive situations in the following pairs of communicators: deaf – hard of hearing; deaf – deaf; deaf-blind – deaf, etc.), in the presence of an intermediary (for example a sign language interpreter) and above all in the personalities of the communicators. They change the quality of communication. It is for this reason, and not just because of the different means of communication, that this interaction is defined as “alternative”, or more precisely, it is an alternative to the communication of children without disabilities.Based on the analyzed information, the author formulates a number of inferences and recommendations. The main conclusion is the following:When discussing alternative communication with children with special educational needs, the focus should shift from the specific means of communication towards the equally socially important quality of the complex process of communication, which is centered on the personality of the handicapped child.

Transition for Pupils with Special Educational Needs

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geraldine Scanlon ◽  
Yvonne Barnes-Holmes ◽  
Michael Shevlin ◽  
Conor McGuckin
Keyword(s):  
Educational Needs ◽  
Special Educational Needs
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