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(2021)The objective of this research was to find out how parents view daycare centers’ capabilities to recognize and support children with sensory processing disorders. When there are challenges in sensory processing, they are caused by the central nervous system. In the disorder, the brain is not able to parse, analyze, or unify information received from the senses. When the brain isn’t able to process information correctly, the human body won’t function correctly. This makes learning more difficult, as well as tolerating normal daily life and stressful situations. The challenges of sensory processing disorders have mainly been researched from the perspective of occupational therapy. There is hardly any research from educational science or special education’s point of view. This research is based on Jane Ayer’s sensory integration theory and modern research that supports it. This topic was approached from the parents’ perspective. This research was done by using qualitative methods. The data was gathered with a questionnaire and the subjects were chosen through snowball sampling. In total there were 47 subjects. The research was analyzed with the help of content analysis and narrative analysis. According to the findings of the research, daycare centers have low abilities to face children with sensory processing disorders. Understanding the challenges these children experience varied, according to the parents. The parents had experienced stigmatizing, blaming, and belittling of the issues from the daycare centers. In some cases, even the children had been blamed. According to the findings of the research, the symptoms of sensory processing disorders are diverse. Further, the problems of learning and behavior associated with the disorders are severe. One of the biggest difficulties in a daycare environment was that is extremely straining. Allowing the children to have a calm space was viewed as important. According to the research, a lack of information is the main reason why identifying sensory processing disorders is so difficult. Supporting children with these disorders in daycares is insufficient for the same reason. Therapy was seen as a tremendous help and a great asset for the whole family. There is a huge demand for further education and training.
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(2016)This research examines the views and experiences regarding communication about personal crisis in work communities. The focus is both in the community as a whole as well as in the individual communicational relationships. The study centralizes around the perspective of the people who experienced the crisis. Theoretical frames are home-to-work spillover and social support. Spillover means the study of how different life spheres affect one another. Social support on the other hand is the study of how people try to help each other by e.g. expressing sympathy, giving advice or offering practical assistance. This is a phenomenological study. The data was collected via online survey during July and August 2015. The study had 40 respondents with different occupational background. Analyzing method was qualitative content analysis with additional support from the more quantitative content differentiation. The results address why the people who have experienced a personal crisis want to or does not want to discuss it with their work community, who they talk to and who they don't talk to, how people felt their community reacted to the situation, what kind of support did they experience, how was the community a burden during the crisis and what kind of positive or negative views and experiences arose from the communicational relationships. One of the main results of the study is that people who have experienced a personal crisis hope that their work community expresses sympathy, understanding about their situation and offers practical support in order to reduce their work load. How people wish sympathy and understanding should be manifested differs greatly. Some hope to receive active empathy while others wish that co-workers wouldn't speak about the situation at all. Six narratives are presented based on the answers. They summarize how different people wish their work community would relate to the crisis, how they talk about the crisis themselves and how they think others react to their situation. Finally, propositions are given to organizations and work communities that wish to be prepared for the personal crisis among their members.
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