This master's thesis, entitled Visibility of non-governmental organisations in Slovenia among education experts dealing with persons with special needs, explores non-governmental (non-profit) organisations in Slovenia that offer assistance and support to persons with special needs in the educational process.
The theoretical part of the master's thesis explains the main theoretical concepts for better understanding of the entire thesis. It describes non-governmental organisations and their characteristics. Non-governmental organisations have different names, which is why the thesis defines: a society, an association of societies, an institute, a foundation, a centre and advisory centre, and an association.
The master's thesis explores non-governmental organisations focusing on persons with special needs. The current Placement of Children with Special Needs Act, which has been in force since 2013, provides for 9 groups of children with special needs. The theoretical part briefly describes each group and explains how education of persons with special needs is organised in Slovenia. Furthermore, it focuses on non-governmental organisations that help children with special needs with their education. One of the goals was to determine who are the experts in Slovene primary schools that work with children with special needs: are they just teachers or are they special school teachers?
As for the empirical part of the master's thesis, it revolves around an online survey among people employed in education. The survey was sent to different schools around Slovenia. A total of 64 people responded. The online survey consisted of two parts. The first part was devoted to the experience of the experts with non-governmental organisations, i.e. what importance they attached to them, where they had found out about them, how many they knew, etc. The second part was a test to determine whether the experts recognised certain organisations or knew for which group of children those organisations were intended.
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