The Growing Experiences of Parents of Students with Special Needs Attending a Picture Book Reading Club of a Parental Education Program

• Main Authors: Chou Cheng Ta, 周政達
• Other Authors: Su-Chen Chuang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/70959675691805104394

碩士 === 國立臺中教育大學 === 特殊教育學系碩士班 === 96 === The growing experiences of parents of students with special needs attending this picture book reading club of a parental education program were explored in a qualitative study. Data were collected through observations, interviews and document analyses. As the results, eight core themes were synthesized： (1) Picture books reading club brought parent group a direction. (2) Picture books related to parents’ life brought parents much emotion expressing and experience sharing. (3) A picture book talking about emotion made parents learn much more about emotion was a good material. (4) Some parents wanted to use the picture book to educate other family members in getting along with special children. (5) The experience sharing and discussions from reading club provided more opportunities for parents to seek for mutual supports, feelings expressing, self understanding, marriage relationship improving and exchange their ways toward child’s education. (6) Parents learned more and felt easier about where their children could go after graduation after visiting a special institution. (7) Parents approved reading club and hope it could go on afterward. (8) The role-play activity helped parents and teachers learned more in getting along with each other. To sum up, this parental education program helped parents of students with special needs had the chances of emotion expressing, experiences sharing and forming mutual support. They also gain some useful information about the special institution where their children might go after graduation.