Open AccessExamination of views and suggestions about participation of families of children with special needs in individualised education programme
Author(s) -
Adile Emel Sardohan Yıldırım,
Gönül Akçamete
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
cypriot journal of educational sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.22
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 1305-905X
pISSN - 1305-9076
DOI - 10.18844/cjes.v13i1.3367
Subject(s) - psychology , obligation , special education , qualitative research , special needs , medical education , pedagogy , individualized education program , medicine , sociology , political science , social science , psychiatry , law
Individualised education programmes (IEP) will be practiced with children with special needs (CWSN) and their families. The main factor for IEP’s success is the participation of the family and also, their children. In this study, views and suggestions about participation of families of CWSN in their IEP processes are examined. The research is based on qualitative research. Five mothers and a grandmother with CWSN were participated; data are collected via semi-structured interview technique and analysed with inductive analysis technique. This research uncovers that the participants didn’t participate in their children’s diagnosis, assessment, settlement and follow-up processes, and they were not content with the assessment results. Also, the participants who didn’t participate in the IEP weren’t even aware of the legal obligation that they had to and their children’s IEP, they weren’t in cooperation with the teacher in that process, and teachers didn’t show the progress in the children to the families even if they recorded that.
Keywords: Children with special needs (CWSN), family, individualised education programmes (IEP).