The importance of improving the education and singular-child-focuced services by the support/assistant teachers for increasing the inclusiveness of the special need children, especially the children with autism, in the preschool and primary education system

Abstract

The support/assistant teachers, who work with special needs children in preschool

and primary education, play an important function in the integration and

inclusion of these children in the mainstream education system. Last years the

number of these support/assistant teachers has been growing, especially in the

preschool institutions of Tirana. When recruiting in the service, assistant teachers

some issues would be raised by the principals, administrators, psycho-social staff

in the preschool institutions, education experts, etc: “Are there enough support/

assistant teachers to provide support and services for all the children with

disabilities? Are they trained as well as to be prepared for in-service working? How

they offer they services and which are the results of their work?”