ESTIMATION OF MOTOR AND COGNITIVE FUNCTIONING AT PERSONS WITH CEREBRAL PALSY AND PERSONS WITH MILD MENTAL RETARDATION

Abstract

The development of special education and rehabilitation provided significant corrections in the methodological approach of the work with disabled children and adolescents. This brought changes in the classical and the traditional point of view of their education and rehabilitation.
The traditional approach classifies disabled children in specific categories. Basically; children belonging to the same category are very similar, e.g. they have more similarities than differences. The newest research in the special education and rehabilitation shows that children belonging to the same category, mutually differ more, and the group by itself is heterogeneous. This knowledge brought significant change in the methodological approach of the work with disabled children and adolescents.
The goal of our research in this field is to develop and to define methodology> for estimation of the residual abilities at the persons with disabilities. Based on this estimation individual programs for education and rehabilitation will be prepared.
The particular goal in this research is to estimate residual abilities at persons with cerebral palsy disability and persons with mild mental retardation.