How is psychological and pedagogical support provided for a child with special educational needs?

What are the specialists provide the psychological and pedagogical support?

• teacher-psychologist;
• speech therapist teacher;
• special teacher;
• teaching assistant;
• social pedagogue.

The specialists are required to make the education of children with special educational needs comfortable, effective and safe.

• changes in the curriculum and curricula;
• changes in the learning outcomes assessment (pupil’s achievement score);
• the use of variable, special and alternative teaching methods;
• the selection of textbooks, teaching aids, preparation of individual educational materials;
• choice of the education format/mode;
• creation of a barrier-free environment and adaptation of the place of study;
• use of technical auxiliary (compensatory) means and special vehicles;
• the special psychological and pedagogical support (provided by psychologist, special teacher, and teaching assistant) for children with disabilities is provided based on the PMPC conclusion and recommendation.

The psychological and pedagogical support for children with special educational needs is provided by a team of specialists jointly with teaching staff of the school.

Whether the child is referred to study in regular school class based on conclusion of psychological medical pedagogical consultation (PMPC), he will be referred for a follow-up psychological and pedagogical support provided by psychological pedagogical support Service (PPSS).

The child comes to the school to study. And special arrangements are made for the child with disabilities. The pupil shall receive the help and support, first, from the class teacher, as well as from PPSS specialists.

Along with that, psychological and pedagogical support is provided in the special school.

Psychological and pedagogical support includes the following:

• The organization and conduct of workshops, meetings; the summary outline of the teaching staff experience in the form of the reports, speeches; the methodological recommendations development;
• The creation of the appropriate material and technical conditions for the physical access and education of the children with development disabilities (such as special equipment, devices, auxiliary and technical means, modern visual and didactic materials) in accordance with the standards; that is beyond the scope of functionality of the mentioned specialists
• The provision to the library of the special educational and correctional development programs, special methodology and education literature.

The psychological and pedagogical support is grounded on the educational needs assessment of the children:

• - with behavioral and emotional problems, adverse psychological factors (abuse upbringing in the family, parent-child and intra-family relationships);
• - with restrictions of a socio-psychological, economic, linguistic, cultural nature (pedagogical neglect of children from families of social risk, children experiencing difficulties in adapting to the society (refugee families, migrants, “kandas” ethnic Kazakh);
• - with developmental disabilities (impaired hearing, vision, intelligence, speech, musculoskeletal system, mental retardation and emotional-volitional disorders).