Sosdanie detsentralizovannih form pomoshi detiyam s narusheniyami razvitiya i ih semiyam [Development of decentralised forms of support to children with disabilities and their families]

• Main Authors: Malik, Larisa, Kalinnikova Magnusson, Liya
• Format: Report
• Language: Russian
• Published: Arachangelsk, Russia 2006
• Subjects: Decentralization; normalization; equal rights to education; children with disabilities; families of children with disabilities; inclusion in the society; Educational Sciences; Utbildningsvetenskap; Norway; Novodvinsk; Archangelsk; Russian North
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-34727

The article is generalizing the results of the Russian-Norwegian project regarding the implementation of the cooperation between the Faculty of Social work of Pomor State University and Oslo Institute of special education and the local municipality. The overall project research initiatives were addressed to the development of services for children with severe disabilities and their families within the theoretical frame of Normalization, Decentralization, provision of Inclusion in society and Equal Rights in Education, targeting to build a daily center for these children in the Novodvinsk city of Archangelsk region [Russian North]. The research project was managed by the Oslo’ Institute of Special Education (now Department of Special Needs Education at the Faculty of Educational Sciences of Oslo University, Norway). The report is presenting and discussing some collected data, central for the development and implementation of the project idea, contributed by the researchers/authors from the university on the Russian side: research, education and participation in the process of evaluation/ monitoring of the project development. The research work was focusing on study of a family situation, family needs, implementation of which was realised through the number of sub-research projects/final educational diploma of students of the faculty of social work. Educational tasks were realised through supervision, teaching and workshops in the form of provision of theoretical expertise and experience of practical technologies of interdisciplinary work with families and children for specialists, involved in the project and future work in the “building” by the project daily center. The process of evaluation/monitoring was controlled by the expectations of families to get “ideal” interdisciplinary service for their children. It was a big project, which collected data from about 500 families with children with disabilities and from families with ordinary children. All the collected data got their hermeneutic interpretation, ...