Rolul activităților extrașcolare în integrarea socio-profesională a copiilor cu dizabilități mintale

Abstract

Extracurricular activities for students with special educational needs are vital foradapting social living conditions and integrating them successfully. Impossibility of social functioning is a trait associated with mental disability. Therefore, there is a need to identify extradidactic activities conducive to coordinating the child with them towards independent living and integration.Children with mental disabilities are part of the category of children with special education needs (SEN). The range of special requirements is wider and includes, in addition to the category "disabilities", two other categories: "difficulties" and "disadvantage". In the last 20 years research in the field of education has brought to the attention of specialists researchers), but also of students and parents, new, unique educational situations that have subjected the school environment to real trials. Ideological theories such as those related to school inclusion and integration, those related to the normalization of the learning environment or the social one still raised serious problems related to the implementation in practice of the ideology of this educational current imported from the West.Mental development refers to the appearance and manifestation of processes, traits, states and psychic structures, while social development involves a continuous amplification of the possibilities of relationships with others and a better attunement of one's behavior with the diversity of social requirements.The component elements of the competences have specific features, which are observed in the educational practices, they are approached in the specialized literature but little researched, which creates difficulties of integration in the society. Thus, the issue of addressing extracurricular activities that are effective in developing life skills is an issue that requires in-depth study to ensure the success of inclusion. The role of extracurricular activities consists in the fact that through them it is easier to achieve the socialization of children with special educational needs. Depending on their specificity, these activities developed in students prices, skills and cognitive and behavioral skills, much more solid, because, taking place outside the traditional classroom, they allow direct contact with social reality.