A Study of the Relationships Between Teachers of Visually Impaired Children and Their Parents
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Spyros Soulis, Department of Primary Education, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece.
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Maria Papadimitriou, Department of Classics, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki Greece.
During the last few decades, the data for the educational integration of blind children change constantly, because the scientific research brings in practice new ways of dealing with them. Teachers and parents of visually impaired children are required to implement new strategies and to serve this complex role, especially when parents need support and ongoing collaboration with the educational staff of context which attends their child. Not only new searching data but also society tries to find solutions in this effort. The present paper was written, in order to study the relations between teachers and parents of visually impaired children in the general school, in order to be taken into account to the current methods of evaluation and treatment and to the relationship and role of parents and teachers in the education of blind children.
Visually Impaired, Blind, Teachers, Parents, Relationships
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