The purpose of this study was to find plans of community inclusion followed by psychological support of families of children with intellectual disabilities.
In the concrete purpose of the study, first, it was to make close inquiry to approach for psy...
The purpose of this study was to find plans of community inclusion followed by psychological support of families of children with intellectual disabilities.
In the concrete purpose of the study, first, it was to make close inquiry to approach for psychological support of families of children with intellectual disabilities. Second, it was to find plans of community inclusion and professional of teachers of children with intellectual disabilities. Third, it was to find plans of community inclusion and professional of parents of children with intellectual disabilities.
The study offered theoretical foundation and methodological approach contents of plans for substantial community inclusion of children with intellectual disabilities by analyzing and investigating various domestic/overseas literatures related to psychological support of families.
The results of this study were as follows;
First, parents of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities experience multilateral psychological conflicts by particularity of intellectual and developmental disabilities in their lives. Though the process of psychological conflict is individual and relative, it is an aspect of experience which parents can show universally. Namely, they express an emotional environment of denial, projecting blame, fear, guilt, grief and mourning, withdrawal, rejection, searching for a cause, acceptance". Therefore, a family support program to encourage a stable psychological environment should be made by realizing family participation through cooperation between families and schools. Also, a psychological environment of the families and the family support program to support the environment, namely measures for particularity of intellectual and developmental disabilities should be based on the context of ecological approach to the families. To satisfy demands of the families and to strengthen their ability, the ecological approach that family?school?community interact in the united system should be applied necessarily to support of the families.
The psychological environment of the families on particularity of intellectual and developmental disabilities is a necessary factor for adaption in the side of quality in life and should be settled for educational performance of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The psychological adaption of the families has an effect on deciding educational contents?methods?environment which can be considered to children with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The results become a basic foundation to raise quality in life expressing economic and social conditions. Therefore, to raise quality in life of the families of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities, the psychological adaption for particularity of intellectual and developmental disabilities should be settled essentially in advance.
To settle the psychological environment, schools should make approach of community realized easily through a positive connection with the families. Namely, the schools should practice education of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities according to the family-ecological approach. The education can be embodied by community-centered school operation, construction of cooperative system with itinerant teachers belonged to the office of education and social welfare professionals, strengthening of integration?exchange education, revitalization of culture life and on-the-spot learning space, legal?systematic support and spreading of practical volition. Through the above, difficulties in the psychological environment can be settled by strengthening their parents' empowerment and communicating with teachers and various resources of community. It raises the importance of family-centered education.
Second, to get an efficient effect in quality of life including the psychological environment of the families by the family-centered education, parents and teachers should be kept?developed to cooperative relations. Teachers' specialized performance cannot help being required since it is to secure the psychological environment of the families in the level of education. Therefore, parents' empowerment?participation should be strengthened and various educational plans should be realized to raise specialty by referring to CEC (Specialized ability of special teachers: Knowledge and Skills) standard emphasizing importance of family and cooperation of family?schools?community in the context of ecology and by abstracting implications from the CEC standard.
Strengthening of training activities in family consulting education, installment of family support centers within school agencies under the control of the government, universalization of itinerant education program, strengthening of community-centered integrated?exchange education and consciousness of practical paradigm of family-centered education by characteristics of productional welfare as social investment should be supported in the level of encouraging teachers' performance so that community inclusion may be spread from the category of teachers' professionals.
Finally, parents' professional can be proposed as a part of forming educational activities in family-centered character for community inclusion. For, development of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities is realized at the time of attaching great importance to quality in life including the psychological environment of the families by establishing the operating system with parents' authority and specialty in composition of active connection?unity of family?school?community. The inclusion formed by family-friendly elements is educational activities practiced by securing the least restrictive environment based on demands of the families and is results embodied by unity of reality and educational activities.
The study basically raised the psychological adaption that children with intellectual and developmental disabilities and family?school?community should settle first in the scope of quality in life and education by examining the necessity that the subject and the scope of educational performance for children with intellectual and developmental disabilities should be enlarged to families. The study places a large meaning in establishing the possibility of plans of their application in a frame of educational activities.
We cannot anticipate a true educational performance in the absence of support structure that educational consideration of families' psychological adaption and strengthening of empowerment by a positive participation of families are presupposed.