장애유아의 조기교육환경 시설 및 정부지원에 대한 부모의 만족도

Abstract

This study was to investigate the degree of parents’satisfaction on, education environment and facilities, educational expense and government support of early childhood special education according to the characteristics of children with Disability. It was also conducted to reflect the parents’desires on education by identifying them accurately through the parents satisfaction survey and to show basic data to prompt the government support for the improvement of quality in early childhood special education. The results of this study were summarized as follows. First, parents in Children’s House only for Handicapped was a little satisfied with education environment and facilities, and the satisfaction degree was high in order of teachers’teaching competency and qualification, children’s number of a class and the safety of facilities and equipments. Second, the degree of parents’satisfaction on educational expense support and policy of government was below the average. Parents were not satisfied with government support and had the great burden of educational expense. They wanted government to provide the expansion of educational facilities, the reinforcement of service and support of educational expense to each child with Disability. In conclusion, the degree of parents’satisfaction on early childhood special education does not reach the level of‘a little satisfied’yet. Therefore, variable educational intervention appropriate to children’s characteristics and parents’desires should be provided in educational institutions. And the government should provide administrational and financial support in order to improve the quality of early childhood special education.