| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺中教育大學 === 幼兒教育學系早期療育碩士班 === 102 === The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors that influence parents’ choose to place their child with special needs with their typical developing sibling in the same or different school setting. In addition, if the parents place two children in the same school setting, from parent’s point of view on the effects of the relationship on the two siblings and their family . Data was collected through detail interviewing with six parents with children with special needs in central part of Taiwan, which is including three children with special needs go to the same kindergarten with typical developing siblings but no other three. Research data were view and analyzed carefully by researcher of the study, the findings of this research are as following:
1. Parents chose kindergarten based on children’s abilities, and hoped the normal children would take care of their special need sibling in the future by giving them more exquisite education.
2. Parents chose kindergarten based on the school’s philosophy of education and the services, and hoped the normal children would take care of their special need sibling in the kindergarten.
3. The sibling ships between normal children and their special need sibling which go to the same kindergarten are positive, and the elder normal children show more caring behaviors to their younger special need sibling, and they usually continue to carry out the caring responsibilities to the school. Moreover, the caring responsibilities are released and it makes the family relationship better.
According to the results, researcher raises further suggestions regarding the practical advice for parents to improve the parent-child relationships with their normal children and for increasing a much friendlier environment for early childhood inclusion.
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