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Saso KOCANKOVSKI

DISPOSING CHILDREN WITH PSYCHPHYSICAL DEVELOPMENTAL DIFFICULTIES AT PRE-SCHOOL AGE

The findings that I present in this paper, are gained through 12 years of work of the commission for disposing children with psychophysical developmental difficulties, working at the service for care and improvement of mental health of children and adolescents in Bitola.

In the period from 1984  to 1996 at the age of 0-7, 191 were disposing children (103 male and 88 female), that from the total number of persons 1638 is 11,66 %.

If we make an analyze according to the type and degree of the difficulty, we’ll have the following situation:

·         from the total number of disposed persons with psychical difficulties in the development, 7,3 % are children at this age, more are male, and usually they are  with severe frustration.

·         from the total number of disposed persons with speech and voice difficulties, 58,8 %, are children at the age of 7, and the most common are developmental disphases.

·         from all the disposed persons with hearing difficulties, 10,9 % are children at pre-school age, and are usually deaf.

·         from the total number of the persons with damaged eyesight 8,8 are children at pre-school age and they are all blind.

·         from all the disposed persons, physically impaired are 8 % at this age and more of them are male.

·         from all the disposed persons with combined difficulties 15,6 % are children at pre-school age. They usually have psychical, physical and speech difficulties.