장애아동 가족의 자녀 양육부담 및 서비스 욕구

Abstract

This study is performed to understand 1) the current situation of public and private education to disabled children, 2) parenting burden and the related variables, 3) parent's need to services. The subject of this survey is the parents of disabled children who live in a city of Jeollabuk-do. The results are as follows : 1) The families of disabled children have a difficulty in the high level economic burden, especially in the additional cost of disablement. 2) Also in the case of disabled children, there are the problems of rapid increase in the cost of private education and in the difference in accordance with the level of families' income. It is important to point out that public school and local office of education have the responsibility to make the support system for the disabled students, and then to narrow the gap. 3) According to the parents' opinions, the segregated elementary school don't provide the therapeutic services sufficiently, and the general middle school don't have the support system for disabled students at the school level. Therefore the general and special schools should endeavor to restructure school system more responsive to disabled students' need. 4) In the subject of parenting burden, the families of cerebral palsy or autistic child need special support. It is important to emphasis the interventions that expand the parents' social support networks. 5) Social workers working with the families can use the support group method, which is emphasis on the linkage of parent to parent, on the supportive interaction, and ultimately on the empowerment of the individual parent and the patents' group.