Authors : Shaira Kaye O. Degamo; Jennylyn E. Sano
Volume/Issue : Volume 6 - 2021, Issue 8 - August
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This research would tackle the challenges that
the new normal in education has brought to parents or
guardians who have children with special needs. Since
face-to-face classes have been canceled which affect the
parents and guardians emotionally and physically as well
as spiritually in attending their children’s need. The
hindrances or challenges that affects the parents would
be included in this particular research where data were
presented and evaluated. Parenting children with special
needs should be knowledgeable and has lots of
information weather its educational or for their
developmental skills. In addition, it requires resources to
handle them in their studies during this time of the
Covid-19 pandemic. The respondents of this study were
the parents of children with special needs at Roxas West
Central School, Roxas, Isabela. Using the questionnaire
and floating it through the google survey form, the
researchers were able to get a result in which 7
participants answered honestly. In this study, the
challenges that parents have encountered were time
management and the difficulty of teaching their children.
Aside from these, parents were challenge on how they
should give the activities and on engaging their children
in the given tasks. Thus, aggressive information
dissemination campaign on educating parents on how to
effectively and efficiently teach their children could be
done through one-on-one mentoring between teachers
and parents or even among parents, face to face or
online seminars and workshops on how to deliver
engaging activities, and evaluation forms to assess needs
of parents. Parents or significant others are in fact the
most important bridge during this time of pandemic,
establishing a good communication and contact to both
teachers and parents are necessary. The collaboration
between the two would highlight a better result in
achieving their goals concerning the children’s
developmental status.
Keywords : Parents/guardians, Challenges, Children with Special Needs, New Normal Education