Journal of Special Education and Rehabilitation

Dragica MACIC, Goran NEDOVIC, Snezhana NIKOLIC, Miodrag STOSLJEVIC

PRE-SCHOOL UPBRINGING AND EDUCATION OF PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED AND CHRONICALLY DISEASED CHILDREN

Our report takes into consideration the following subjects:

1. The goals of upbringing and education of physically handicapped and chronically diseased children;

2. The importance of upbringing of this population;

3. Review of the number of children at pre-school age with psychophysical difficulties ( 1986-1993 ) ranged in the rehabilitation;

4. Secondary handicaps of the motor functions, caused by chronic diseases;

5. Primary handicaps of the motor functions, congenital and achieved;

6. Early defectological diagnostics;

7. Early treatment of motor functions, by Dragica Macic;

8. Application of the upbringing and educational context with special defectological method by Dragica Macic;

9. Case presentation;

10. Conclusion.