Peculiarities of Adaptive and Rehabilitation Processes of Children with Special Educational Needs

The paper examines the peculiarities of the adaptive and 
rehabilitation processes of children with special educational needs. It was 
found that one of the most significant issues of rehabilitation work with 
children with special educational needs is to create the conditions for their 
integration into society. This stipulates the determination of the state of 
their adaptive and rehabilitation potential formation suggesting 
identification of social characteristics and social relations of the children 
with special educational needs; definition of the levels of their learning 
opportunities, skills and abilities development; elucidation of the 
peculiarities of intra-family relations in families bringing up children with 
special educational needs; research of rehabilitation processes features 
being passed by children with special educational needs. For studying the 
state of adaptive and rehabilitation potential formation in working with 
children with special educational needs, we have conducted a diagnostic 
study among children with special educational needs who receive 
rehabilitation services at the Shepetivka City Center for Social 
Rehabilitation of Disabled Children of Khmelnytskyi region. The parents 
of the children took part in the study as well. The results of the diagnosis 
revealed that the children with special educational needs are dominated by 
medium and low levels of formation of self-concept and comprehention of 
their relations with the social environment; they are characterized by 
medium and low levels of general mental development; children with 
special educational needs suffer hostility and conflict in their families, 
while their parents experience feelings of guilt, anxiety, and mental stress; 
the difficulties being faced by the children with special educational needs 
during the rehabilitation process are mainly related to their focusing on 
their own illness. In this regard, we have developed and substantiated the 
forms and methods for regulating the adaptive and rehabilitation processes 
in working with children with special educational needs, which, in our 
opinion, should be applied by specialists at the centers for the social 
rehabilitation of children with disabilities.