Practices for Assessing the Well-being of Disabled Children and Young People with Disabilities: The Experience of the Day Employment Center “House under the Sun”

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Abstract

The article summarizes the main practices of assessing the level of well-being of the wards of the Center for Day Employment — children with disabilities and young people with disabilities “House under the Sun”, created at the Charitable Foundation “Lifestyle” (Moscow) in 2021. The work of the Center is carried out on the basis of a modular approach, includes the interaction of various blocks aimed at creating conditions for productive social-cultural adaptation of children with various developmental disorders. The center serves 46 wards of different ages from 6 to 34 years old, including children living in families and receiving education in various educational organizations. The center works according to the author’s programs of additional education. An important component of the activity is the constant monitoring of the pedagogical and social effects of the implementation of programs.

General Information

Keywords: children with developmental disabilities; socio-cultural adaptation; supplementary education; monitoring

Journal rubric: Scientific Life

Article type: scientific article

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/ssc.2023040402

Funding. The article was prepared based on materials presented at the conference held within the framework of the state assignment of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, dated 08.02.2023, No. 073-00038-23-01, “Scientific and methodological support for evaluating the effectiveness of measures of the Decade of Childhood from the perspective of children’s well-being”.

Acknowledgements. The authors thank the project’s scientific consultant for assistance in collecting and processing data for the study V.P. Chemekov, PhD (of psychological sciences), project expert E.Yu. Levina, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences.

Received: 14.12.2023

Accepted:

For citation: Zhgenti I.V., Stukalova O.V. Practices for Assessing the Well-being of Disabled Children and Young People with Disabilities: The Experience of the Day Employment Center “House under the Sun” [Elektronnyi resurs]. Sotsial’nye nauki i detstvo = Social Sciences and Childhood, 2023. Vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 31–38. DOI: 10.17759/ssc.2023040402. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

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Information About the Authors

Inga V. Zhgenti, PhD in Education, Deputy Director, Charitable Foundation for the Promotion of Social and Cultural Initiatives and Guardianship “Way of Life”, Moscow, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7393-8898, e-mail: info@obrazfund.ru

Olga V. Stukalova, Doctor of Education, Docent, Leading Researcher, Federal State Budgetary Institution "Psychological Institute of the Russian Academy of Education", Deputy Director for Educational Programs, Charitable Foundation for the Promotion of Social and Cultural Initiatives and Guardianship “Way of Life”, Moscow, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8377-2388, e-mail: stukalova@obrazfund.ru

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