DEVELOPMENTAL PROBLEM REGIONS WITH INSTITUTIONALLY INTEGRATED CHILDREN AT THE EARLIEST AGE

• Main Author: Jasminka KOCANKOVSKA
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Faculty of Philosophy, Institute of Special Education and Rehabilitation 1997-06-01
• Series: Journal of Special Education and Rehabilitation
• Online Access: http://jser.fzf.ukim.edu.mk/pdf/1997-2/15-JAS~1.pdf
• ISSN: 1409-6099; 1857-663X

The examination was carried out with the developmental test by Cuturic with every infant at the end of the first (103 infants), the second (120) and the third month (123) calendar age at the Infant and Small Children Center in Bitola. Besides the knowledge of general development (indicated with numeric value for the categorization possibility as retarded-limited-normal-faster-significantly accelerated), the test enables establishment of the development in three fields: motor, oculomotor and socialization with possibility for categorization in the previously mentioned five categories. The received results were statistically worked out for each age category and for each field of the age category and then they were mutually compared. The received results, unfortunately, rejected the stated and tested zero hypothesis and on their basis it was stated that the three month stay of the infants in the institution influenced negatively the dynamic of the psycho-motor development in the sense of its retardation and it was indicated through decline of the developmental coefficient values-higher and better to average, average to weaker. The analyzes of the developmental dynamics in different fields show that during these three month period the best is the motor development which decline from month to month is present, large and statistically significant.The additional education of the employees for behaving with children, the increase of the number of the employees, employment of special staff (educators, psychologists, somatologists, speech therapists and others) is only a part of the responsibilities of the adults in order to enable and ease the realization of the children developmental potential.