Technologies of social work with children with disabilities

Research Objective. To assess the use of social work technologies with children with disabilities in the Republic of Tajikistan.

 Materials and Methods. We analyzed reports from the State Medical and Social Expertise Service, social institutions, primary health care facilities, and studied materials from international organizations whose activities are aimed at the rehabilitation of children with disabilities.

 Results and Discussion. The article discusses the causes of disability in children and the problems faced by children with disabilities. Children with disabilities are those who have various mental or physical deviations that lead to developmental impairments, preventing them from leading a full life. The analysis focuses on social work technologies with children with disabilities, aimed at identifying social problems, determining their causes, and finding solutions; collecting information; changing the child’s social status, economic and cultural level, values, and orientations; assisting in resource and life force recovery; preventing social and individual risks; and facilitating the integration of children with disabilities into relatively unfamiliar society or cultural systems. The use of social work technologies with children with disabilities will contribute to ensuring, maintaining, and strengthening their physical, psychological, social, and moral health; forming socially significant orientations and attitudes in their life self-determination; organizing sports, health-improving activities, leisure activities, and other forms of joint activities between children with disabilities and their healthy peers—conditions essential for the successful integration of children with disabilities into society.

 Conclusions. The use of social work technologies with children with disabilities will help ensure, maintain, and strengthen their physical, psychological, social, and moral health; foster socially significant orientations and attitudes in their life self-determination; organize sports, health-improving activities, leisure activities, and other forms of joint activities between children with disabilities and their healthy peers—conditions necessary for the successful integration of children with disabilities into society.

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