Valko T. - The perceptions of family relations as a factor of creating a family by persons with intellectual disorders

Contact: Valko Tetiana, postgraduate student in Kamyanets-Podilsky National Ivan Ohienko University, Kamyanets-Podilsky, Ukraine. Academic interests: Forming ideas about a family of teenagers with intellectual disabilities.

The article is devoted to an actual and important problem on forming perceptions about a family by teenagers with mild intellectual disorders. The works of scientists who have covered this problem are analyzed and summarized. It is determined that afterschool stage socialization of graduates from specialized educational institutions and their realization as family members are not enough studied.
«The basic aspects of family life» research method have been developed for diagnosis perceptions of a family of a particular school graduate students category. The significant features of perceptions about family of high school students with mild intellectual disorders have been identified. The present article deals with the factors that have influenced on the perceptions about a family of the high school students. This research emphasized that the completeness and accuracy of ideas about a family life in teenagers depends not only because of the level of intellectual development, but also because of the type of educational institution. In this research described positive examples of realization in a family life and parenthood graduates from a specialized education institution for school graduate students with intellectual disorders. The actual aspects of a problem are certain determined by comparing the research results of the ideas about a
family of students who study at specialized educational institutions and postgraduate students.

Key words: adolescents, school graduate students, intellectual disability, perceptions of family, special education institution.