Special SchoolPub Date : 2022-04-30DOI: 10.5604/01.3001.0015.8523
A. Twardowski
{"title":"The role of virtual home visits with the use of coaching in early support for the development of children with disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"A. Twardowski","doi":"10.5604/01.3001.0015.8523","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0015.8523","url":null,"abstract":"During the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual home visits have become an essential tool in the provision of early support of development of children with disabilities. Thanks to such visits, support can be provided in the natural environment of the child's development and can be focused on the family. Virtual visits forces professionals to apply more coaching strategies to parents and requires parents to engage in a direct relationship with the child. In the first part of the article, the author presents the conditions that must be met for a virtual home visit to take place. Next, he characterizes the course of a virtual visit in accordance with the coaching method. In the third part of the article, the author highlights the most important advantages and disadvantages of virtual home visits.\u0000\u0000","PeriodicalId":371798,"journal":{"name":"Special School","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129743115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Special SchoolPub Date : 2022-04-30DOI: 10.5604/01.3001.0015.8522
Karolina Zdziechowska-Dzierzgwa
{"title":"Capabilities and limitations of preschoolers with autism spectrum disorder in terms of mastering numeracy skills","authors":"Karolina Zdziechowska-Dzierzgwa","doi":"10.5604/01.3001.0015.8522","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0015.8522","url":null,"abstract":"The first part of the article briefly reviews studies on the mathematical abilities of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Inconsistencies in the image of the mathematical aptitudes of this group of children have been revealed. One of the studies found that children with ASD with an average IQ score show higher math skills compared to children with the same IQ without ASD. The other study shows that there were no significant differences in the early numeracy skills among preschoolers. The differences reappeared after a year, when the children were re-examined when they were already first graders. Children with ASD in all examined areas scored lower than typically developing children. However, despite the generally lower scores obtained by the children with autism compared to the control group, the scores of children with ASD were within the average range. Therefore, the main purpose of the presented research was to find out the level of the mathematical skills in preschoolers diagnosed with ASD. The research used diagnostic experiments created by Edyta Gruszczyk-Kolczyńska (Gruszczyk-Kolczyńska, Zielińska, 2013). 36 children aged 3 to 6 were examined, including 18 children with ASD and 18 children in the broadly understood intellectual norm. It has been shown that out of 18 children diagnosed with ASD, every fourth preschooler shows the level of the numeracy and calculation skills well above their age (four examined children – one five-year-old and 3 six-year-olds). At the same time, in some of the examined children, significantly lower level of mathematical abilities was observed compared to children in the broadly understood intellectual norm (even 2–3 years of delay in the level of numeracy and calculation skills). The results of the presented studies can help to adapt the learning process to the intellectual potential of the surveyed children and to plan corrective or supportive actions.","PeriodicalId":371798,"journal":{"name":"Special School","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131465505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Special SchoolPub Date : 2022-04-30DOI: 10.5604/01.3001.0015.8521
Anna Bombińska-Domżał
{"title":"Therapeutic support for a student with autism spectrum disorder in an integrated and inclusive school. Evidence-based practice intervention procedure","authors":"Anna Bombińska-Domżał","doi":"10.5604/01.3001.0015.8521","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0015.8521","url":null,"abstract":"The article presents the possibilities of therapeutic support for students with ASD in integrative and inclusive education at the first stage of education. Traditional educational methods do not work for children with ASD, because they most often require special therapeutic interventions. The aim of the article is to analyse the therapeutic intervention undertaken for a highly functioning student with ASD to improve his/her functioning at school. The intervention programme was based on techniques of scientifically proven effectiveness (evidence-based practice), focused on learning skills by enhancing desired behaviours. The skills selected for the intervention were necessary to being able to participate in the teaching and learning process during typical teaching activities. After one year of intervention, most of the skills included in the programme were considered passed, and the model of teachers' work with the student changed, which increased the student's chances of further development of skills, desired behaviours, and prevention of difficult behaviours in the future.\u0000\u0000","PeriodicalId":371798,"journal":{"name":"Special School","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125606639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Special SchoolPub Date : 2022-04-30DOI: 10.5604/01.3001.0015.8520
Anna Hryniewicka
{"title":"Fortitude and creativity of Maria Grzegorzewska in overcoming barriers standing in the way of her education","authors":"Anna Hryniewicka","doi":"10.5604/01.3001.0015.8520","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0015.8520","url":null,"abstract":"This article describes the first stage of Maria Grzegorzewska's difficult path to education against the background of the socio-political conditions in the Kingdom of Poland at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, with particular emphasis on teaching at home and in private Scientific Institutes of Jadwiga Kotwicka and Paulina Hewelke, studies at the Society for Scientific Courses conducted by Ludwik Krzywicki, studies as a hospitant at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University, work as a home teacher and social activity to popularize knowledge among the poor population of Warsaw and Krakow.\u0000\u0000","PeriodicalId":371798,"journal":{"name":"Special School","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129220901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Special SchoolPub Date : 2022-04-30DOI: 10.5604/01.3001.0015.8524
Maja Zielińska
{"title":"The INPP School Intervention programme in work with a student with specific learning difficulties by Sally Goddard Blythe","authors":"Maja Zielińska","doi":"10.5604/01.3001.0015.8524","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0015.8524","url":null,"abstract":"Changing the lifestyle to a more passive, less active one increases the threat to the development of the young generation. The phenomenon of physical inactivity is deteriorated by the ubiquitous computer, the Internet, and in the last two years by the pandemic and all kinds of restrictions. Numerous studies show that children diagnosed with impaired body coordination, balance and general mobility also experience failures in the learning process. It has been proven that methods based on physical activity support the education process with great success.\u0000The aim of the article is to present the general assumptions of the INPP School Intervention Programme by Sally Goddard Blythe as an effective form of supporting a student with specific school difficulties. The School Intervention Programme is successfully implemented in mainstream primary schools around the world.\u0000\u0000","PeriodicalId":371798,"journal":{"name":"Special School","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130983568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Special SchoolPub Date : 2022-04-30DOI: 10.5604/01.3001.0015.8525
Małgorzata Szeroczyńska
{"title":"Respite care: free form of support for the factual guardian of a disabled person","authors":"Małgorzata Szeroczyńska","doi":"10.5604/01.3001.0015.8525","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0015.8525","url":null,"abstract":"Since 2019, the Ministry of Family and Social Policy annually announces the \"Respite Care\" Programme for factual carers of children with disabilities or adults with a severe disability certificate. The paper presents this Programme in its 2022 edition. It discusses the principles of its financing, conditions for participation and forms of support. At the same time, the author raises the question whether such an organized service, with, by assumption, limited accessibility, meets the requirement of adequate support for people with disabilities, resulting from the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.\u0000\u0000","PeriodicalId":371798,"journal":{"name":"Special School","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133931818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Special SchoolPub Date : 2022-02-28DOI: 10.5604/01.3001.0015.7708
L. Radková, L. Cintulová, Jerzy Rottermund
{"title":"Current problems with integration of children with Down syndrome in Slovakia from the parents' perspective","authors":"L. Radková, L. Cintulová, Jerzy Rottermund","doi":"10.5604/01.3001.0015.7708","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0015.7708","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Although the integration of children with special needs into mainstream schools has been legalized in Slovakia for 12 years, parents and children with Down syndrome still face many challenges. Methods: Research was based on questionnaires and interviews of 60 parents of children with Down syndrome who had experiences with integration. Results: Results show that in general, only about 10% of children with Down syndrome are fully integrated. Conclusions: Due to the lack of funds, teacher's assistants are not allocated to schools and integration is often hampered by the reluctance of school principals and teachers. Children are often rejected and parents are forced to place them in special schools. Although integration was introduced in Slovakia in 2008, very few schools practice it. Both teachers and assistants lack detailed knowledge of integration, and their education in this area neither has not been carried out nor financially supported in cooperation with the law. According to the results of our research, the Act is only formally applicable in practice, there was no real integration. It would be good to compare our experiences and results with the research on the situation of integration of children with Down syndrome in other post-communist countries.\u0000\u0000","PeriodicalId":371798,"journal":{"name":"Special School","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121804230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Special SchoolPub Date : 2022-02-28DOI: 10.5604/01.3001.0015.7697
Anna Hryniewicka
{"title":"Maria Grzegorzewska's doctoral dissertation in the context of the development of psychological sciences at that time and some aspects of her biography","authors":"Anna Hryniewicka","doi":"10.5604/01.3001.0015.7697","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0015.7697","url":null,"abstract":"This article is an introduction to Maria Grzegorzewska's doctoral dissertation on the development of aesthetic feelings in children and adolescents. It presents the course of her education at the International Pedological Faculty in Brussels and the Sorbonne in Paris, the value of her doctoral dissertation in the context of the development of psychology at that time, and the circumstances surrounding the change in her interests and life plans, which led to the creation of an original concept of teacher education and the establishment of the National Institute of Special Education.\u0000\u0000","PeriodicalId":371798,"journal":{"name":"Special School","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128978412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Special SchoolPub Date : 2022-02-28DOI: 10.5604/01.3001.0015.7713
Anna Prokopiak
{"title":"Kelly Hunter Heartbeat Method in theatre work with people with autism spectrum disorders","authors":"Anna Prokopiak","doi":"10.5604/01.3001.0015.7713","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0015.7713","url":null,"abstract":"The article presents the Kelly Hunter Heartbeat Method (HHM) in work with people with autism spectrum disorders, used during workshops in Lublin. During the four days of meetings, a team of eight actors together with Hunter, in October 2019, conducted 14 workshops and the final performance with people with ASD. All these meetings were attended by over 70 people with ASD (from young children to adults, from non-verbal people to students with ASD from different universities in Lublin) and over 350 accompanying persons, in particular parents of people with ASD and students of pedagogical faculties at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University and the Catholic University of Lublin. The article refers to the constant elements of the method: Shakespeare and the rhythm of the heartbeat, structure of a place, people and activity, affirmation of a person with autism spectrum disorders, showing their undeniable impact on triggering the potential of people with autism spectrum disorders.\u0000\u0000","PeriodicalId":371798,"journal":{"name":"Special School","volume":"142 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134466051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Special SchoolPub Date : 2022-02-28DOI: 10.5604/01.3001.0015.7700
Malwina Kocoń
{"title":"Baby Sign Language in the development of young hearing children: A review of selected studies","authors":"Malwina Kocoń","doi":"10.5604/01.3001.0015.7700","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0015.7700","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this theoretical article is to increase the cognitive value of the subject of Baby Sign Language, in particular their positive impact and significance for the development of a hearing child. Addressing this problem seems important because of constant interest in sign language for children, both among parents and scientists. Equally important is the argument of the lack of a sufficient number of Polish studies in this area. The article consists of a short introduction and four thematically and logically arranged parts. The first contains a synthetic description of the process of language acquisition and development as well as the communication of a young child. The second part presents the history of the Baby Sign Language, its basic assumptions and principles. The third part discusses the importance and benefits of using the Baby Sign Language in the development of a young child. The study ends with a short summary with final conclusions, which show, based on the presented empirical material, that the Baby Sign Language has a positive significance for the child's development in almost all its spheres, i.e. e.g. in the linguistic, cognitive, emotional and motor spheres.\u0000\u0000","PeriodicalId":371798,"journal":{"name":"Special School","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131521707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}