INVESTIGATION OF THE FUNCTIONING AND EFFECTIVENESS TO DATE OF THE FACILITY OF PARALLEL SUPPORT IN THE GENERAL FRAMEWORK

In recent years, the institution of Parallel Support has been implemented in the general/standard school. More specifically, it is about the support of PWDs (Persons with Disabilities and/or Special Educational Needs) who have ‒opinion from KE.D.A.S.Y. (Center for Interdisciplinary Assessment, Counseling and Support)‒ within the classrooms of the general school. The survey was conducted in the school year 2021-22 in the school organizations of the educational district of Lasithi and forty teachers who served in these schools participated in it (40). The semi-structured interview was used as a tool to collect the research data and information, while the analysis and decoding of the research data was carried out with the qualitative method of content analysis. Based on the results of the research, the inability of the operation of the institution to contribute to the essential and real pedagogical-educational, psycho-emotional and psycho-social inclusion of the students of this special group in the general context is revealed.