Opalyuk O.M. - Information technologies in the education of children with special needs

Contact: Opalyuk Oleh, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Psychological, Medical and Pedagogical Fundamentals of Correctional Work, Faculty of Special Education, Psychology and Social Work, Ivan Ogienko KamyanetsPodilsky National University, Ukraine.

The given article presents the results of a study analyzing the peculiarities of information technology in the education of children with special needs. The task of increasing the efficiency of the educational process is set nowadays before the modern special school. The article reveals the peculiarities of application of information technology in education of children with special regarding the compensation of physical disabilities with the help of the latest learining techniques. The article analyzes the principles and tasks of application of information technologies in correctional-restorative and correctional-developmental work. In the field of inclusive education, information technology can help children with special educational needs to realize the right for education, discover their potential and self-realisation as individuals in society. The use of information technology in the education of children with special needs contributes to the development and correction of psychophysical processes: memory, motility, thinking, and space orientation. The application of information technology in correctional education allows to optimize the pedagogical process, individualize the learning of children with special educational problems and significantly increase the effectiveness of any activity. The use of computers, multimedia and information technologies as didactic tools help to increase children's motivation and interest in the process of completing tasks. Modern technical devices allow to design fundamentally new pedagogical technologies that promote the activation and effective functioning of compensatory mechanisms to correct various disorders, speech development, and also general development of children. The didactic materials, new subject-based learning environments, and samples of new objects with the orientation on information technology should take into account the psychophysical and cognitive characteristics of children with special educational needs and types of leading activities for each age group. Also, when organizing children's work on the computer, it is necessary to pay attention to compliance with sanitary and hygienic standards.

Key words: special education teacherss, information technologies, information and communication technologies; inclusive education; students with special educational needs; inclusive education.