Abstract
<p>The training aims at: 1) providing essential knowledge to parents of Special Educational Needs (SEN) students in inclusive primary schoolsin Lopburi Provinceand 2) learning the parents’ perspectives on how to presently work with their children with special needs. Eighty-five inclusive schools, from the first and the second school districts participated out of the pool of all regular public schools in LopburiProvince by suggesting parents’volunteer to participate in thesetraining sessions. Two parents of SEN students from each school were allowed to attend the trainings. The first school district had 80 parents attending from 40 inclusive schools, while the second school district had 89 parents joining the training from 45 inclusive schools, equating to 169 totalparticipating parents. Qualitative research reports from the parents’ sharing and brainstorming session emerged into three different themes accordingly: 1) knowing more rights and support for their children, 2) have better knowledge, increase awareness, and a better understanding for living with children with special needs, and 3) managing children with disabilities as if this was a result of their “Bad Karma.”</p>
Highlights
The training projects were organized from the results of our previous research study, in 2016-2017
In that previous study, sponsored by a grant from the Thai government to conduct research, entitled: “Policy into Practice for Inclusive Schools in Lopburi Province”, we found parents of students with special educational needs (SEN) were in need of being trained to understand the fundamentals of disabilities so that they could be able to work with their children with special needs
Parents comprehend more support is out there from the community and people around. They learned that they could consult with specialist in the community hospital and that their children could be transferred to upper tier hospitals in case their children had more complex disabilities
Summary
The training projects were organized from the results of our previous research study, in 2016-2017. In that previous study, sponsored by a grant from the Thai government to conduct research, entitled: “Policy into Practice for Inclusive Schools in Lopburi Province”, we found parents of students with special educational needs (SEN) were in need of being trained to understand the fundamentals of disabilities so that they could be able to work with their children with special needs. There were kindhearted considerations from BKIND, willing to grant researcher funds to conduct training projects for uplifting quality of life in Thailand. These training projects occurred to help the group of parents of SEN students in Lopburi area who were in need of support. The training projects aimed at: 1) providing the basic knowledge to the parents of SEN students in Lopburi ’s inclusive primary schools and 2) learning about the parents’ situation towards working with special-needs children
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