Otroschenko N. The activity of the social pedagogue from the pupils’ professional orientation of the general educational school

Object: process of family education for mentally retarded children; objective: theoretical grounding and experimental verification of the model of socio-pedagogical patronage of families with mentally retarded children; methods: literature analysis, modeling, interview, questionnaire survey, socio-pedagogical experiment; novelty: the model of socio-pedagogical patronage of families with mentally retarded children is grounded and worked out; results: the model of socio-pedagogical patronage of families with mentally retarded children is implanted, a course "Social Work with mentally retarded children" is worked out, as well as trainings "Social Work with mentally retarded children", "Protection of the Rights of mentally retarded children", "Socio-pedagogical Work with families that bring up mentally retarded children", "Basics of parental competence"; field – Social Pedagogics.