Telna O. Development of social participation skills for visually disabled primary school students using role play

The dissertation explores the acute issues of creating some new approaches to the development of social participation skills for visually disabled primary school students using role play. The analysis of how the problem is being addressed and solved in Ukrainian and foreign literature (containing general and special academic studies on special education and special psychology) is provided. Developmental and social therapeutic effect of the role plays in teaching and up-bringing of primary students with visual disability is described. The necessity of the profound research in the field of development of social participation skills amongst visually disabled primary students using role play is validated. The methodology for developing social participation skills for visually disabled primary students using role play, that was tested experimentally, is described here. It intends to develop the capacities of visually disabled primary students to social perception, social interaction and social communication and includes the following interrelated elements: content, purpose, objectives, principles, methods, forms and types of social activities, stages of developing social participation skills for visually disabled students using role play, and the forthcoming results. The empirical data, obtained in the postexperimental test, confirm the effectiveness of the innovative model and the selected correctional and developmental role plays in developing social participation skills for visually disabled primary students in their learning and up-bringing.