Evaluation and Development of Playing Skills for Parents With Children With Special Needs

Evaluation and Development of Playing Skills for Parents With Children With Special Needs

Children with special needs; experiences physical, behavioral, social, cognitive and emotional limitations. These limitations affect the child's play skills. They need to be supported and encouraged by their parents to enable them to participate in the game. Parental playing skills creativity, self-efficacy and active participation are important factors in this regard.

In current studies, parents with special needs children; It is supported that there is a relationship between play, acting and parental self-efficacy. In this study, it was aimed to improve the skills of parents with special needs children to play games with their children multidimensionally and to develop these skills with individual-specific techniques.

Detailed assessments will be carried out in order to determine the functional, cognitive and psychosocial skills of the parents.

After the evaluation phase is completed, the scores of each parent will be analyzed and interpreted according to Occupational Therapy Models. Playing training will be given individually according to parameters such as strong and weak features, strong sensory system, personality traits, predisposition and defensive approaches.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Being a mother of a special needs child
• The age of her child is 2-6 years
• Being able to speak Turkish
• Volunteer to participate in the study

Exclusion Criteria:

• Have training in play therapy
• Having a psychiatric or neurological disease that significantly affects cognitive status