Evaluation and Development of Playing Skills for Parents With Children With Special Needs

Bezmialem Vakif University17 enrolled

Overview

Children with special needs; experiences physical, behavioral, social, cognitive and emotional limitations. These limitations affect the child's play skills. They need to be supported and encouraged by their parents to enable them to participate in the game. Parental playing skills creativity, self-efficacy and active participation are important factors in this regard. In current studies, parents with special needs children; It is supported that there is a relationship between play, acting and parental self-efficacy. In this study, it was aimed to improve the skills of parents with special needs children to play games with their children multidimensionally and to develop these skills with individual-specific techniques. Detailed assessments will be carried out in order to determine the functional, cognitive and psychosocial skills of the parents. After the evaluation phase is completed, the scores of each parent will be analyzed and interpreted according to Occupational Therapy Models. Playing training will be given individually according to parameters such as strong and weak features, strong sensory system, personality traits, predisposition and defensive approaches.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

Conditions

Play and Playthings

Interventions

Play Skills TrainingBEHAVIORAL

Each parent will be provided with "play skills training" that will support them to spend effective and meaningful time with their child. While planning the educational contents, an Occupational Therapy Model suitable for the parent and the child will be used. The process will be followed by giving unique recommendations to each parent. Recommendations given based on feedback will be revised.

Eligibility

Sex: FEMALEMin age: 20 YearsMax age: 50 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Being a mother of a special needs child * The age of her child is 2-6 years * Being able to speak Turkish * Volunteer to participate in the study Exclusion Criteria: * Have training in play therapy * Having a psychiatric or neurological disease that significantly affects cognitive status

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Adult Playfulness Trait Scale

The scale consists of 19 items. Each item falls under one of the three subscales: funseeking motivation, uninhibitedness and spontaneity. All items were randomly ordered and used seven-point likert scales with all points labeled (1= "strongly disagree", 7= "strongly agree").

Time frame: 2 mounths