Parental Involvement: The Present Scenario in Special School
Tania Rubya*
* Senior Lecturer, Department of Continuing Education & Professional Development, Proyash Institute of Special Education & Research (PISER)
PISER JOURNAL | Volume 2 | Issue 1 | 2025
Abstract
This study aimed at exploring the present scenario of special school depends on the parental involvement in school activities of their children with special needs. In this study, parents and special educators was selected from Proyash School at Dhaka District. The total sample size was 25 whereby questionnaires, interviews and archival data were used to collect data from the respondents. The findings from the interpretation of the data derived that most of the parents of Proyash schools were not constructively involved in their children’s school academic activities such as accompany in homework, students’ attendance, self-motivated in school activities, communicating with teachers and other school staffs including in-charge of the specific school though the teachers of the school provided educational meetings where they explain the advantage of parental involvement. Grounded on the findings of the study, it can be suggests and recommends that the school authority provided parents training and seminar or conferences to explain the importance of parental involvement for the Childs’ wellbeing and raise awareness about the need of becoming involved in school academic activities and education policy makers have to establish and develop specific policy to be more success in education of the child with special needs.
Keywords: Parental Involvement, Special School, Parents Training, Parents Awareness, Education Policy.
