The Use of Puppets in Bibliotherapy Classes in Order to Help Shape the Adaptive Behaviour of Pupils with Mild Intellectual Disabilities (Based on a Pedagogical Experiment Applying the Parallel Groups Technique)

• Authors: Agnieszka Łaba-Hornecka

Abstracts

EN

The world of the social experience and expectations of children with mild intellectual disabilities is very diverse. Such children do not always know how to cope with social expectations. In such situations they tend to withdraw or, conversely, behave improperly, in this way trying to mark their presence. Th e paper presents a pedagogical experiment, during which puppets were used in bibliotherapy classes. The method has already proven effective when working with children with mild intellectual disabilities. The main aim of the project was to develop adaptive behaviours in children with mild intellectual disabilities to include creative actions and the skills of social interaction in their upbringing and school environment and among their peers and to encourage them to seek effective ways to deal with their own difficulties.

Keywords

EN

mild intellectual disability; adaptive behaviour; puppets; bibliotherapy

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: The New Educational Review
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 47
• Pages: 266-276

Dates

published

2017

Contributors

author

Agnieszka Łaba-Hornecka

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/tner.2017.47.1.21

Biblioteka Nauki

1998276