Importance and the Role of Families in the Development of Kids With Disabilities in Educational Process
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https://doi.org/10.59519/mper3016Keywords:
family, parents, family of children with disabilitiesAbstract
The most important factor in a child’s upbringing is family and it’s fundamental for development of children. Family members are the first ones who make a contact with a child and they are the most important in shaping child and his abilities. Parents are first teachers that child meets in his life and are the ones who provide support, motivation and abilities to learn through different activities, it’s important that they keep that role through child’s entire life. Children with disabilities require support and incentive from their families to achieve maximum of their abilities and to reach their full potential. In everyday life we are witnesses that families of children with disabilities are exposed to varieties of different problems that require adequate help and support to overcome them. In educational process family is the key and indispensable factor which contributes to the sucess of process itself.
The aim of the study is to get to know and to explain key factors that families have for children’s development. The paper focuses on connection between professionals and families and strategies that they use in mutual cooperation to help children to achieve results and make progress. With adequate support from a family there is nothing that a child can’t do and every barrier that they meet will be overcomed much easier.
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