SOCIAL ACCOMPANIMENT OF THE FAMILY WHO HAS A CHILD WITH SPECIAL NEEDS

Abstract

The article emphasizes that social support for the family who has a child with special needs is the solution to a whole range of social problems associated with helping the child and his family: with its survival, treatment, rehabilitation, education, social adaptation and integration into society. The purpose of the article is to find out the features of social accompaniment of a child with the special needs and to define the social and pedagogical work assignments. The tasks of the article is to exposure of social problems of parents who have a child with special needs; to determin of social and pedagogical work with family, who has a child with special needs; to research theoretical bases of social accompaniment of family, which educates a child with special needs. The methodology of research is polidisciplinarny; it combines cognitive complex and personal approaches. It is stated that support for the social health of the family who has a child with special needs requires additional forms of social-pedagogical activity (except of accompaniment and counsultansy) aimed at helping parents. Social and pedagogical help of family, which educates a child with the special needs, is always family orientated practice, which is directed on child socialization. In accordance, the basic principles of social and pedagogical work with such families is unity of family activities and social institutes; activation parents’of role, their training and engagement in to social and pedagogical activities. Inclusive education in Ukraine (including Rivne region) is at the stage of active adaptation, organizational and methodological correction in general educational institutions now. The accounting of the framework and standards for the activities of social work of specialists in general educational institutions for the work with the children who have special needs and their families are at the stage of development. And actually social and pedagogical work with children who have special needs in the educational sphere is an invariant of the implementation of inclusive education. It’s defined that social accompaniment of the social worker’s activity will include a systematic help to families, which educate a child with special needs; creation of the center of psychological, medical and pedagogical consultation of such families; organization of their activities. It is established that the content and the components of social support are the content and organizational basis of the social and pedagogical work with the family of a child with special needs in general.