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  • Erityislapsen sosiaalinen integraatio huoltajan näkökulmasta 
    Sirén, Mari (2015)
    The aim of this study was to describe the social integration of Finnish school age children with special needs. The term social integration means children's friendships, relationships with classmates and friends, children's perception and acceptance by classmates and friends (Koster ym. 2009, 135). The purpose of this study was to build the model of social integration for Finnish children with special needs and also study different perspectives of social integration and factors effecting into those. Previous studies have shown that pupils with special needs are less popular, lonelier, less accepted and they have less friends in school (f. ex. Pijl ym. 2008, Szekeres 2014, Pijl & Skaalvik, 2010). On the other hand, it has been shown that pupil with special needs is as often a group member and is as often outsider as other children (Avramidis, 2010). The research was a quantitative survey study and the research data was collected with association how support guardian of children with special needs. 107 guardians took part in this study. The research data was analyzed by SPSS-computer program. Exploratory factor analysis, correlation and analysis of variance were used as analysis methods. The model of social integration was not completely in-line with previous studies. This study showed that friendships and interactions with friends, problems with peer relationships, acceptance by classmates, interaction with classmates during free time as well as loneliness and difference were major parts of the model of social integration. This study showed that children with special needs had some friends, they didn't have statistically significant problems with peer relationships and they are relatively well accepted by their classmates. Despite friendships and acceptance, the children with special needs didn't have so much interaction with classmates during free time and they felt loneliness and difference. Especially the children with special needs and with special support in school had challenges to create interaction with friends outside school. The children with behavioral challenges observed had more problem with peer relationships compared to the children with delays of development.
  • "He näkee sen oman juttunsa" : Erityislasten vanhempien kokemuksia kohtaamisista ammattilaisten kanssa 
    Majuri, Hanna (2022)
    The purpose of this study is to elucidate the experiences of parents of children with special needs when encountering professionals and to understand the meaning of these encounters. Child’s special needs affect parents in many ways and there is more parental burnout among parents of children with special needs. Parents of children with special needs regularly encounter professionals from social services, health services and schools and family-centeredness has become one of the values that conduct services planning. Family-centered practices recognizes parents as the experts on their child, acknowledges the individuality of the families, promotes partnership, and are based on the family’s strengths. In previous studies parents described parents as the experts on their child but stated that professionals do not always acknowledge their expertise. System is described fragmented, and parents experience that professionals do not see the complexity of their lives. The study is based on thirteen semi-structured qualitative interviews with parents of children with special needs. The interview material was analyzed using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA). Results showed that when encountering professionals parents experienced that parents and professionals had different roles. The roles of the professionals were companion, expert, know-it-all, and border guard. The roles of the parents were expert, organizer, and fighter. System affected encounters as it was experienced fragmented, and it contained different rules. Also, diagnosis and resources affected encounters. Encounters, occupational skills, services, and information sharing were experienced coincidental. Encounters evoke emotions and emotions affected encounters. Based on the results, it can be concluded that from parents’ perspectives there are issues that hinder family-centered practices. Encounters also have issues that increase parents’ burden. System should be improved so that it matches better the needs of the families, for example there could be a coordinating professional. Professionals should acknowledge parents’ expertise and consider parents’ emotions when encountering them.
  • Yleisen, tehostetun ja erityisen tuen oppilaiden opiskeluinto ja toiveet koulun fyysiseltä ja sosiaaliselta ympäristöltä 
    Latvasto, Riitta (2016)
    This research is a part of a wider research in the metropolitan area. Junior high school and high school students (n=700) participated in a research about a meaningful and happy school in 2015. The goal is to chart what a meaningful and happy school is like and to get some concrete information about students to improve studying to be more up to date. The purpose of this research is to study the students motivation for studying in the metropolitan area and the needs for social and physical environment. One of the baselines used in this research is Ryan's & Decin's self-determination theory (2000). The research focuses on the answers (n=322) of the students concerning studying motivation, and the social and physical environments in three different junior high schools. The materials were collected through web inquiries. This is a quantitative partial taken from all material, which is analyzed by the Kruskall-Wallis test and variance analysis tests. The students' answers were separated into the students who need general, intensified and special support. The answers are used to find out if the students who need special support want the same matters as the students who need general and intensified support. And to study what kind of differences there are between the students who need special support and those who need general and intensified support. The results show that 86 % of the students, especially students who need special support, want areas to school for relaxing with possibilities to use computers. The students hope to have small rooms for studying by themselves privately. This was also suggested mostly by the students who need special support. At 82 % of students want to use gyms at playtime during the school day. The students who need general support pointed out that school is an important place for meeting friends. From the results we can see that students who need general and intensified support are more motivated to study than the students who need special support. We can affect to the students motivation for studying with support and early stage prevention. Schools can take advantage of the results of this study and they have chances to have an effect on the studying motivation and improving the environment for their students. Motivation and physical and social environment can be used for making school a better place for students.

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