Published: 2016-11-13

New Concept of Early Support for Children with Disabilities

Andrzej Twardowski
Pedagogical Forum
Section: Articles and essays
https://doi.org/10.21697/fp.2014.1.02

Abstract

The subject of this article is a modern view on early support for children with disabilities. In the past twenty years the traditional paradigm of early support, which is professional-centered, had been replaced with a more advanced, family-centered one. The essential difference between those two is the idea of working with children with special needs. In the second paradigm, direct interactions between the child and professionals turned into cooperation with families, as well as building partner relations with their members, especially parents. The author presents his own model of early support of child’s development focused on interactions between parents and the child with its four main elements: (1) characteristics of interactions influencing child’s development, (2) daily activities of the family, (3) curiosity and interest of the child, and (4) strategies used by parents interacting with the child.

Keywords:

early support, children with disabilities, development, family

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Twardowski, A. (2016). New Concept of Early Support for Children with Disabilities. Pedagogical Forum, 4(1), 15–33. https://doi.org/10.21697/fp.2014.1.02

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