ANALYSIS OF THE DIDACTIC ACTIVITY SPECIFIC TO KINETOTHERAPY IN ROMANIAN SPECIAL EDUCATION
ANALYSIS OF THE DIDACTIC ACTIVITY SPECIFIC TO KINETOTHERAPY IN ROMANIAN SPECIAL EDUCATION

Author(s): Florin Dragoș CĂPRIȚĂ, Lorand Balint
Subject(s): School education, Vocational Education, Adult Education, Methodology and research technology, Health and medicine and law, Inclusive Education / Inclusion
Published by: Discobolul Publishing House
Keywords: special educational needs; kinetotherapy; special education; students;
Summary/Abstract: Kinetotherapy for students with special educational needs has a strong educational and therapeutic character due to the means and methods used to recover their associated conditions. In order to conduct this study, a questionnaire was applied between February and March 2021 to teachers carrying out kinetotherapy activities with students with special educational needs enrolled in special schools from all regions of Romania. The main purpose of the study is to analyse the process of implementing educational-therapeutic activities in the field of kinetotherapy in Romanian special education. The questionnaire is structured in two parts and extracts both demographic and socio-professional data about respondents as well as data on the main components of didactic activities, analysing educational documents, methods and teaching aids used in educational-therapeutic activities and the evaluation process, aspects regarding the relationship with parents and the collaboration with members of the multidisciplinary team. The validation of the questionnaire items is given by the value 0.920 of Cronbach’s Alpha coefficient, which shows the excellent internal consistency of these items. The studied sample consists of 51 respondents whose gender distribution is 41.2% (21 participants) for males and 58.8% (30 participants) for females. In conclusion, the study has revealed that it is necessary to optimise educational documents to facilitate the individualisation of the kinetotherapy programme by adapting educational-therapeutic activities according to the particularities of the physical and psychomotor development of students with special educational needs.

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