Children with special needs integration in St. Benedikto school

Work item - the integration of children with special needs. The study problem. There are not a lot of scientific works in literature, analyzing the pupils with special needs through the integration of physical activity in comprehensive schools. There hasn‘t been made a detailed study in Alytus to determine how the integrated physical activity changes these students' communication and attitude to people with disabilities. No matter what disabilities a child has, he has to get all possible help, it means the development of all the available potential of development opportunities. A child with special needs, needs help to reintegrate into society, to prepare for independent living. The problem is that society, in particular, schoolchildren in comprehensive schools are not ready to accept people with disabilities. The aim of this work. To identify Alytaus St. Benedict students and the school physical education teachers attitude to disabled people, and find out what factors influenced this attitude. Job tasks: 1. To assess the students' approach to the integration of persons with disabilities. 2. Assess the approach to the integration features of the age dimension. 3. Assess the physical education teachers' attitudes to people with disabilities and their integration into the physical activity. 4. Determine how physical activity changed the approach to the integration of disabled people. Conclusions: 1. Approach to the integration of disabled persons among abled and special. needs of students did not differ. 2. 11 - 14 years of age and 15 - 18 age group of schoolchildren approach differs to children with disabilities, when talking about: the reasons for which the child acquires a disability, the reason why they don‘t communicate with disabled children (classmates would laugh on them), recognition of disabled children and what disabled children are lack of (p <0.05). In other aspects their opinion didn‘t differ. 3. Teachers' positive approach to the integrated spec. education needs of pupils depends on the type of school in which they work, (integrated, partially integrated and non-integrated) – in integrated school physical education teachers are in favor of the disabled students' integration to take place not only in physical education classes, partially integrated - and partly in favor of the non-integrated -- opposed to the whole. 4. The study showed that, in conjunction abled and the disabled - it is a process of integration, abled schoolchildren approach became positive (p