SUPPORT FOR PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN AND STUDENTS WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS IN THE PROCESS OF EDUCATION

The last few years our educational policies have outlined the problems of and followed the changes in regards to children and students with special educational needs in order to provide opportunities for them to develop their potential along the side of their peers in kindergarten, preschool and schools. Inclusive education is incorporated in different regulations as a part of the solemn right of every child and student with special educational needs to have access to education and ensuring the proper environment allowing their personal development. Keeping that in mind we can easily state that schools and kindergarten is for all children and students. They take on the responsibilities to provide quality education, general support for the personal development of children and students with special educational needs. The inclusive educational environment provides equal chance and opportunity for children with special educational needs to learn, play and to be accepted by the rest of the children in the educational system. This would be a good place to point out that inclusion is a right, philosophy and policy. The philosophy of educational system has changed. The child- as the main value-is at the center of the educational process. This allows us to point out that inclusiveness is a right, philosophy and a policy. Therefore it should be looked at as a process and as a result.We look for the current researched issue in the application of the support for personal development as a new component of educational inclusiveness of children and students with special needs in kindergartens and schools. The support ensures adequate physical, psychological and social environment for the development of their skills and abilities and for their inclusion and participation in the community of the kindergartens and schools. In order to gain the needed support in the educational process, each child and a student with special educational needs goes through an evaluation process which determine the specification of each individual’s needs by a team for personal development support in the kindergarten and schools. The team collects the data and analyses the information regarding the functioning of each child and in particular any/all kinds of difficulties, strengths and the potential for optimal development, participation in the educational process and the opportunities for realization so that additional support for their personal development is provided. This is why we could say that the main concept in the education of children and students with special educational needs is the support for their personal development, because it provides the access to quality education and activates the additional resources aimed at the removal of all obstacles for learning and education.