Tutor support for children with disabilities

How many people know about such a concept as "tutorial support"? What does it mean? Who are tutors and what are they generally doing? Who needs their help? All of these questions will be answered in this article.

Who is the tutor?

The notion of tutor support is understood as the activity of a person who received a special education aimed at assisting in training with the application of an individual approach. In other words, it is an expert who provides the student with the teacher with the help of his own, helping him to overcome both pedagogical and psychological "barriers". Often there are examples where a teacher with a difficult child does not want to engage and interact, but he has all the rights to it, just gives the child the learning process more difficult than his peers. It is in such situations that the tutor acts as a link between the student and his teacher, often helping him discover new talents and expand his own possibilities. It is necessary to pay tribute to such a specialist, because this is a hard work that is not given to everyone.

What should be the tutor

Tutor support is a time-consuming task. What are the qualities and skills necessary to implement it? An important role is played by the psychological readiness of a person to this process, it is necessary to have special pedagogical skills and have a reserved and friendly character. A tutor can accompany as one child, and a whole group of children. And for each of them it is necessary to find time, approach, to establish interrelation. Unfortunately, for today in Russia there are no special educational institutions where it is possible to learn such a profession. However, they are trying to create chairs and faculties with a bias toward tutoring. Is it really impossible to get such help?

Maybe. In schools and kindergartens there are such people as social psychologists-teachers, they can provide such help. Volunteers are also happy to help, but they do not have the methodological skills necessary to implement tutoring.

Do you need tutors in the education system?

Tutor support causes controversy in the education system. Do we need it at all? Can teachers themselves not cope without such help? These issues are very relevant at the moment. Let us consider them in more detail.

It is not necessary to hide that during the time of our mothers and dads, grandparents, teachers were more emotionally reserved, did not allow themselves to talk with students in high tones, and some even had amazing stamina. At the same time, teachers sometimes show incredible rudeness in relation to their wards. How, in such circumstances, can the child perceive the educational material and generally have the desire to learn? Tutor support shows a completely new pedagogical approach, where a child can address his mentor as a friend, ask questions and not be afraid that he will be ignored or will show rudeness in relation to him. Tell me, is such a unique approach necessary? We think the answer is obvious.

Without restrictions in training

This type of assistance is in great need of special categories of children. As an example, tutorship of children with HIA is possible . These are children with various disabilities: mentally retarded, with a delay in development, with a speech disorder, a diagnosis of cerebral palsy, etc.

It is easy to imagine how such children are given training in ordinary schools, they feel unnecessary and embarrassed of their own violations in health. But this is not their fault. Here, tutors need to build a learning process, based on the characteristics of each child. Tutor support will help such students in the general learning process, specialists will prompt how to interact with their peers, how to acquire knowledge and fix them. The main task is not to allow these children to feel inferior or limited. It requires not only pedagogical and methodological assistance, but also psychological support.

Children with disabilities

And what about the children who move, for example, in a wheelchair? How will they receive their education if they can not attend school? Tutor support for children with disabilities becomes a real salvation in such cases. The curator helps in providing the necessary literature, provides the necessary information, realizes the complete connection between the pupil and the teacher, creates maximally expanded opportunities for self-development and learning the child. Even if the student is sent for treatment or for a preventive stay in the sanatorium, the mentor still continues to interact with him through various means of communication, does not leave his ward. An important aspect is also the fact that tutors organize interaction not only in the "pupil-teacher" system, but also "pupil-classmates".

Children with autism

The tutorship of children with autism involves several stages. It is necessary to evaluate what skills the child has, how he manifests himself in individual and group activities, how to follow social rules, observe the daily routine and perceive sensory stimuli. Assess how much he can interact with other people, how he responds to requests, and whether he turns to help himself. Children with this diagnosis are more difficult to perceive the environment, it is more difficult for them to learn the teaching material, but this is not a reason to deprive them of education. In such cases, tutorial support expands its boundaries. The mentor needs to compile not only a detailed training plan, but also a detailed plan for diagnosing the child's personality, and monitor changes in the behavior of the ward throughout the learning process and interaction. Without all these components, the result will simply not be possible to achieve.

Children with hearing loss

Schooling is an important stage in the life of every person. Hence the development and compilation of the future model of life begins, therefore it is so important to attend school. Tutor support for children with hearing impairment begins with the acquaintance of the mentor with his ward. Tutoru simply need to talk with the parents of the child, to find out his strengths and weaknesses, to study his specific side of the disease.

Only after this it is necessary to pass to the drawing up of the plan for accompanying the child. The very process of interaction should be based on the model that the tutor is not the main thing, he only helps the child to choose the goal and achieve the results. At the same time, the specialist helps build communication with classmates and teachers. Such a child, as a rule, is not very contact, and it is difficult for him to be in a social environment, but the tutor must help overcome these barriers.

Children at risk

Tutorship of children at risk is a very difficult task. Teachers in schools treat these students with apathy, punish them, scold them, causing even greater deviations in the child. Often in such behavior, the student is blamed for the street and dysfunctional friends. However, often the causes of deviant behavior are much deeper. Parents independently shy away from the educational process or choose an aggressive model of upbringing, which entails bad consequences. How can a young person make independent important decisions on his own? He is just being pushed to demonstrate abnormal behavior. This is a kind of cry for help that needs to be heard. Hear and help. The tutor is the "lifebuoy", acting as a mentor, friend, ally. And such help will be appreciated by the child from the risk group.

The Problem of Gifted Children

Tutor support of gifted children - is it meaningless? Many people think so. Why would a gifted child help a tutor? The answer to this question is very simple: such children, strangely enough, very often face a lack of understanding of teachers. And instead of creating for the child an individual training program, teachers simply fill up with his tasks. With this approach, the talents of the child can not only not be developed, but completely ruined.

Tutor support here plays a huge role. It is necessary not only to establish relations between pupils and teachers, but also to support and help develop the gift of the child. After all, if oppression occurs, then where do we start from development? If there is a derision of talents, then the desire to be talented disappears. But modern society so badly needs gifted children, in their thoughts and discoveries.

Teaching Tolerance

Tutor support in the inclusive education of children is an important factor. In this we have already seen enough. The practice of leaving children with HIA from training in special educational institutions has not yet been fully developed, but it is quite possible. When teaching in ordinary schools, a double process takes place. First, children with limitations learn to be and live in society. Secondly, ordinary children learn to interact with people other than them, they learn to show tolerance, respect and understanding. And in order for such processes to occur without psychological trauma and for some, and for others, tutoring is created. Only specially trained people, with a balanced character and understanding of the problem, can act as mentors. It is in this way that it is possible to erase the boundary between unusual and ordinary children, showing that all people are equal and deserve understanding and acceptance by society.

Expediency of tutoring

Probably, people will be divided into two types: those who consider such a process in training expedient, and those who do not see in it a special need. However, tutorial support not only helps children learn and learn, but also shows that this process can be interesting. Children are still small people who can not independently learn to tolerate, not accepting people like them. There is an opinion that child cruelty knows no bounds. But this cruelty is born not from anger, but from ignorance. Tutor support implies communication with classmates of his ward. The mentor explains and explains the problem, pointing out not the weaknesses, but emphasizing the strengths. Only knowing the characteristics of the child, you can confidently choose the model of individual education, which is so necessary for children with disabilities.