In the adapted program for pre-school children, special education and rehabilitation teachers encounter a very diverse population of children with special needs. Movement impairment on the continuum from the easier to the harder level can be present in children. Working with physically challenged children demands the knowledge of the appropriate posture positions, which are appropriate for a physically challenged child, and the appropriate handling of children in everyday activities. We can diminish the influence of primitive reflexes in physically challenged children with the appropriate handling. We can protect the child against the emergence of deformations, influence the appropriate tension of the muscles, prevent the development of irregular patterns of movement, and accelerate child’s development of psychomotor functions. By research, we wished to gain an insight into the evaluation of the special education and rehabilitation teachers' and parents' handling skills with physically challenged children. At the same time, we wished to check what the cooperation between the mentioned experts is in the connection with gaining information on handling with children. 64 special education and rehabilitation teachers and 71 parents of physically challenged children from all over Slovenia were included in the research. The results showed that the participating parents and special education and rehabilitation teachers evaluate their handling skills with physically challenged children as good. They both believe that they gain enough information from the physiotherapist. They evaluate their cooperation with the physiotherapist as very good. Special education and rehabilitation teachers with several years of working experience evaluate their skills of handling with a high average grade. Special education and rehabilitation teachers believe on the average that in the course of the studying process they gained a little bit of practical knowledge and a little bit of theoretical knowledge on handling skills. On the basis of the results of the research work, we formed some directives for special educational work in the field of handling with physically challenged children.
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