Corrective defectological work in the context of inclusive education (the perspective of service providers)

Corrective defectological or special educational work is one of the important approaches in the education and rehabilitation of children with disabilities and developmental disorders, regardless of whether these children are educated in special or general conditions. Corrective work, additional support, compulsory extracurricular individual activities or corrective stimulating exercises - are all kinds of individual special educational work based on the specific educational needs and abilities of each individual child. The benefits and values of applying individual special educational work in special education and rehabilitation are numerous; the focus on one student/user, as given by the very nature of this type of teaching or work, is not only a simple spatial orientation of a higher degree but also a new type of relationship, communication and interaction that creates a new quality and development in the discovery and perception of the world around these students/users. Individual special educational work, as an approach, exists in the part of the education system that is intended for the education of students with disabilities, in the so-called special schools for more than 15 years, and it is almost neglected the existing possibility of its application in the entire educational system, in all educational institutions where children and students with disabilities and developmental difficulties learn in an inclusive context. Inclusive education in Serbia, which still faces numerous challenges, should use all available resources in an adequate way. Corrective defectological or special educational work is an insufficiently used inclusive resource in our environment and our educational system.