Availability of Special Education Related Services and Incentives for Children with Special Needs in Government Special Education Centres in Punjab: A Survey of Parental Perception

Parents' involvement in the rehabilitation process is very important. Parental views about the availability of related services and incentives are the significant indicators of their required particular needs. The aims of the present study were to evaluate the level of available related services and incentives in special education centers and to highlight their specific and suggestions for improvement of these services for students of four disabilities studying in these centers. A survey was conducted from 2019 to 2020 to collect data about demographic characteristics and information about related services and incentives provided to these special students from their parents and also their suggestions to improve these services. The sample consisted of 36 government special education centers at the Tehsil level, from which 479 questionnaires, filled by the parents of students, were received back. The results emphasized the low education and income of the parents, increasing incidence of disability in the families of special children, lack of available services and incentives in these centers, and acknowledged parental suggestions and recommendations. It was concluded from the survey that future planning of provisions of related services and incentives might be more helpful and effective if based on the requirements and preferences conveyed by parents of special students with four disabilities.

COPING ENHANCEMENT PROGAM FOR THE MOTHERS OF SPECIAL CHILDREN- A PRELIMINARY STUDY

Background: Caring for a family member with a special challenging problem is a signicant chronic stressor in humans.In fact, caregiver stress is currently seen as a human model of chronic stress in the stress literature. As a need based interventions with mothers can help them reduce their stress and increase their coping levels, this study was conducted on the effectiveness of coping enhancement program for the mothers of special children. Objective:The overall objective of this study was to establish whether the Coping enhancement program could be utilized when the population of interest is caregivers of special children with psychiatric, behavioral or emotional disorders. Study design:A survey cum quasi experimental, one group pretest post test design was used for this study. Materials and methods:The present study was conducted in three phases- Assessment of stress, coping level and coping factors of mothers of special children, development of a coping enhancement programme and administering the coping enhancement programme to mothers. The effectiveness of the program was judged by the difference between the pretest and post test score. The population selected for the study were the mothers of the special children admitted in special schools of Puducherry Union Territory. Results: The coping enhancement programme was found to be signicantly effective among mothers handling special children in coping with their stress and thus it may result in enhancing the quality of life of the special children.

Assessment of Academic Achievements of Special Children

Life skills are the social and psychological abilities that are very helpful in the learning process and to develop a healthy and sound society. These skills play a key role in academic achievement of students. The better academic achievements and life skills provide a way to the better academic achievements. Life skills development also played an important role for the development of a society and nation. So, knowing the importance of life skills a research study was conducted. This study aims to investigate the life skills of male and female mentally retarted students (ii) to assess the life skills of female and male mentally retarded students as perceived by their teachers (iii) to analyze the academic achievements of the mentally retarded students (iv) to investigate the impact of the life skills of mentally retarded students on their academic achievement. The total 20 students of 10th grade were selected for the current study. The researcher used questionnaire for data collection. The questionnaires were distributed among the concerned teachers. The academic achievements of 10th grade students with mental retardation were analysed by using descriptive statistics and percentage formula. The results of the study showed that students with mental retardation achieved low academic scores. Out of 20 students, 4 students got 33% marks, 7 students got 33-40% marks, 5 students got 41-50% marks, 4 students got 51-60% marks and no students got more than 60% marks. This low academic achievements of students with mental retardation indicated that children with mental retardation needs special care and extra efforts to achieve better academic achievements. So, it is suggested that special care children must be cared with special attention.

EFFECTIVENESS OF THE COPING ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM ON THE MOTHERS OF THE SPECIAL CHILDREN: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW

Parenting is a hugely stressful job, and attering a mother of a child with a disability is one of the big stressful life events that can occur. The aim of this systematic review was to summarize coping strategies used by mothers of special children, identify which tools are most frequently used to measure coping strategies in mothers of special children and report on outcomes of useful coping strategies. According to PRISMA guidelines, the articles indexed in PubMed, Web of science, Psyc INFO, and CINAHL database using a combination of expressions including “Coping” AND “Special children” OR “Coping enhancement AND ‘‘Mother”, were searched and analysed. The researcher found that the mothers of special children used more functional coping styles. The most widely used strategy by mothers of special children appears to be social support-seeking. This review underlines that Coping measurement should be adapted to recognize effective strategies which decrease side effects of the reactions to stressful life occurrence.

Library Information Center: Experience with Special Children and Their Parents

The article talks about the work with disabled children, which has been conducted for more than twenty years, about the forms of library services for disabled children at home. About the events that are held for the moral and spiritual support of both children and their parents.

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Red meat is considered to be important part of our diet, as it helps in making of blood specially red blood cell which circulates oxygen in our body and it also important part of our body building block as amino acid is use for making of DNA. The objective of this research is not to discuss its biological importance but to clear the objection of other religion towards the way of slaughtering in Islam. And also clear the awareness of slaughtering between each individual Muslim, Non-Muslim and special children

Counseling Parents of Special Children: Insight from Resilient Parents

Resilience is the ability to “bounce back” from adversity. Resilience research shifts our focus from the stress response to coping response. ‘Human agency’ takes center stage, which can be understood as making choices and taking actions intentionally. Defining resilience, as the ability of individuals to navigate their way to psychological, social, cultural, and physical resources in a culturally meaningful way to sustain their wellbeing, will be more meaningful in the Indian context. Factors leading to parental resilience are explored in the context of Indian society, with specific reference to Mumbai city, where the research has been done. This chapter summarizes the factors that both hinder and favor resilience and discusses the role of counselors in this process.