Stress, Health and Emotional Instability Among Students with Special Educational Needs: An Early Intervention Approach

Abstract

The involvement of parents in early intervention programs for children with special educational needs can help parents know the skills and development their children are going through. Parents are the main guardians of children, namely the provision of food, clothing, protection, love, education and shelter for children. With this, it is very important for parents to get involved in the activities of the child's early intervention program. Parents' understanding of intervention skills is improved and the types of activities appropriate for their child. For example, parents can use strings and beads for children with special educational needs to help their children concentrate and focus. In addition, parents can know the level of development of their child where it is necessary to improve their child. However, there are some parents who are less involved in early intervention programs because they lack the knowledge and readiness for early intervention programs. This can be seen clearly in parents who live in rural areas and there is no information for early intervention programs. According to studies, service access barriers for children living in rural areas are decreasing. Therefore, parents do not know about early intervention programs for children with special educational needs and they do not know that early intervention needs to be implemented as early as 2 years of age.