Resumen de The current state of involvement of children with special educational needs in out-of-school education in Ukraine

Viktoriia Kovalenko, Viktor Syniov, Liudmyla Peretiaha, Halii Alla

• The paper considers the current state of involvement of children with special educational needs in out-of-school education. The purpose of the article is to study the qualitative composition of groups of children with special educational needs who are involved in out-of-school education based on the type of developmental disorder; forms of involvement; areas of out-of-school education in which children with special educational needs are studied; determining the impact of out-of-school education on the development and socialization of children with special educational needs. At the first stage, the state of the problem development in domestic science was studied; at the second stage - the author's questionnaire and expert evaluation procedures were developed; a statement experiment was conducted using the survey method and the method of expert assessments; at the third stage, the analysis, systematization, processing of the accumulated empirical material is conducted. It has been determined that children with musculoskeletal disorders, mental disorders, autism spectrum disorders, mental retardation, severe speech disorders, hard of hearing, deafness, the visually impaired, and children with blindness are involved in out-of-school educational institutions. Children with special educational needs are involved in clubs (creative associations) of artistic and aesthetic, physical culture and sports, art, tourism and local lore, social rehabilitation, ecological and naturalistic, scientific and technical, health, humanitarian, research, and experimental and military-patriotic areas of out-of-school education.