Record Details

The Need for Involving Parents in the Rehabilitation of Persons with Special Needs in Nigeria

Kasarinlan: Philippine Journal of Third World Studies

View Archive Info
 
 
Field Value
 
Title The Need for Involving Parents in the Rehabilitation of Persons with Special Needs in Nigeria
 
Creator Bodang, Juliana Rotkangmwa
Amwe, Rachael Asibi
 
Subject
Persons with special needs, Parents, Involvement, Need.

 
Description The age long global trend of institutionalizing special needs persons/children for their rehabilitation is now being deemphasized in both the developed and the developing worlds. Emphasis  is now shifted on the need for family and community involvement in the care and rehabilitation of children with disabilities. Thus, advocacy on the promotion of their well-being is now focused on community-based rehabilitation which many scholars consider as down to earth and more natural since the target population reside in their domain. Further, it entails the utilization of locally available resources to train special needs children/persons amongst varied communities. It is  in this dimension that this paper discusses crucial issues such as what constitutes special children, their nature, needs as well as what constitutes specially in such children. In the same vein, the plight  of the children in question has been highlighted bearing in mind socio-cultural practices, beliefs and attitudinal dispositions of the general populace as they pertain to parents/guardians of children with disabilities. Having clearly, highlighted the plight of special children in the Nigerian context, strategies to enhance their well-being as related to education, social as well as their economic aspect of life were also dwelt upon.
 
Publisher Asian Online Journal Publishing Group
 
Contributor
 
Date 2016-12-15
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
text/html
 
Identifier http://www.asianonlinejournals.com/index.php/AJSSMS/article/view/925
10.20448/journal.500/2017.4.1/500.1.31.35
 
Source Asian Journal of Social Sciences and Management Studies; Vol 4, No 1 (2017); 31-35
2313-7401
2518-0096
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.asianonlinejournals.com/index.php/AJSSMS/article/view/925/pdf
http://www.asianonlinejournals.com/index.php/AJSSMS/article/view/925/html
http://www.asianonlinejournals.com/index.php/AJSSMS/article/view/925/remote
 
Coverage 0
https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&imq=Asian+Online+Journal+Publishing+Group&authuser=5&citation_for_view=3v-9kFIAAAAJ:lvd772isFD0C&gmla=AJsN-F5dSfHH-ndtVlg5L2XbECWXXtZMIuDsXt7Zi33KRmerrqRbFD8AlZjcVjWmjD7sYAcRrtstwhJZONgCE

 
Rights Copyright (c) 2016 Asian Journal of Social Sciences and Management Studies