Journal of Special Education and Rehabilitation

5-14

Authors: Daniela DIMITROVA-RADOJICHIKJ, Natasha CHICHEVSKA-JOVANOVA

This paper presents the changes of the studies in special education and rehabilitation at the Faculty of Philosophy due to the Bologna process. The aim is to give a comparative review of the old and the new study program. Key words:the Bologna process, Institute of Spe­cial Education and Rehabilitation, European Credit Transfer System.

25-32

Authors: Irena DUMA VASOVSKA, Marina DAVCHEVA-CHAKAR, Gabriela KOPACHEVA-BARZOVA

Otitis media with effusion (OME) is the leading cause of hearing loss in children and it is associ­ated with delayed language and speech develop­ment. The aim of the study was to improve the diagnostic accuracy, understanding the difference between the OME and other forms of middle ear infections.

41-48

Authors: Zora JACHOVA, Aleksandra KAROVSKA

All researches point to the fact that the early de­tection and diagnosis are still performed late (after the third year of life), so in the first three years of life there is no establishment of the developmental changes in a way that they include the interrelation aspects of the human development and its natural sequences. With the start of early rehabilitation procedures we encourage the positive manner of communication in the small deaf child, so that it manufactures and processes information that can lead to positive quality changes in the develop­mental process. The hearing technology has dramatically changed over the last decades. With the contribution of audiometers in the 40-ties of the last century we started to learn how to precisely estimate the de­gree and type of the hearing impairment, which has an enormous meaning for the optimal fitting of the powerful hearing aids and the cochlear im­plants. In the same period hearing aids for small children are developed which enabled children with a sig­nificant hearing loss a better opportunity to de­velop speech and their spoken language. Key words: hearing impairment, early diagnosis, neonatal screening, cochlear implantation

59-66

Authors: Natasha CHICHEVSKA-JOVANOVA, Daniela DIMITROVA-RADOJICHIKJ

This article presents the results acquired from the assessment of the visual perception in students with special educational needs. The research cov­ered in total 85 students, out of which 20 with vis­ual impairment, 45 with mild mental retardation and 20 with cerebral palsy. To assess the visual perception we have used the MVPT-R (Motor-free visual perception test-revised). The research data shows that the students have statistically lower visual perceptive age than their chronological age indicates. Key words: students with special educational needs, visual perception.

71-79

Authors: Branimir JOVANOVSKI

This paper points out that people with disabilities in their everyday life face different barriers which make their life difficult and are limiting factors that enter all segments of their life. Besides the presented existing barriers, suggestions for their successful removal are given.

89-97

Authors: Boge CHADINOVSKI

The paper globally presents the commitments of the National Strategy for equal rights of people with disabilities in the Republic of Macedonia, the obligations that come out of it and comments on its appropriate realization. The Government of the Republic of Macedonia adopted the National Strategy on the basis of the Article 8 of the Law on Government of the Re­public of Macedonia (“Official Gazette of the Republic of Macedonia” No. 59/2000), starting from comprehensive contents of the Constitution of the Republic of Macedonia, Conventions of UN, Convention of Europe and other interna­tional documents related to all citizens and espe­cially for invalid people. In establishing certain contents, the role of all subjects in the system of care, education, reha­bilitation, and employment were taken into con­sideration in relation to the issue of invalid peo­ple through a differentiated approach.

105-107

Authors: Risto LJAPCHEV

Writing a professional textbook provokes many dilemmas. One of them is either to seize studious elaboration of a separate issue extracted from a bigger unit in order to highlight a particular item, an entity or to elaborate everything that can pro­duce a broader unit and give information on the basic introduction into a certain professional area. The author of this textbook, Prof. Dr. Vladimir Trajkovski, has no dilemmas of the kind. He ac­cepted the second variant, having in mind the aim and the purpose of this book, i.e. the students of the Institute for Special Education and Rehabilita­tion at the Faculty of Philoso­phy in Skopje to per­ceive the complexity of the disability issue from a medical point of view. Courage, energy, positive motivation and knowledge are needed to accom­plish this, primarily a noble aim. The aim is to help stu­dents to acquire information and surmount the required material, consequently to reach the final goal, i.e. to help those who really need assistance, not any but successful and profes­sional assistance. The textbook Medical Bases on Disability by Prof. Dr. Vladimir Trajkovski impresses with the con­tent of elaborated topics. Thus, the au­thor divides it into five main parts, and each of them is didacti­cally branched, most frequently starting with the definition of the item. Then it indicates the physiological-anatomic bases, clinical manifesta­tions and classification of the symptoms into syn­dromes, the possibility for their differentiation and diagnosis, and at the end is the information that serves as therapeu­tic arsenal. Achieving knowledge of a certain part of these five parts from the book, and finally from all parts of the book, I hope that the users of this textbook will have the feeling they have sur­mounted a coherent unit, that they have be­come richer by getting wide-ranging profes­sional information. The first and the second part of the textbook Medi­cal Bases on Disability by Prof. Dr. Vladimir Trajkovski refers to the neuro-psy­chiatric issues. Thus, starting from the anat­omic characteristics, through serious elabora­tion of the part related to mental retardation, it continuous with pointing out certain psychiat­ric entities (children’s schizophre­nia, autism, epilepsy…) as well as neurological diseases (miopathy, neuropathy, cerebral-vascular dis­eases…) which, in many cases, are the reason for the disability. The third part of the book refers to the issues of impairments of hearing. The author, in this part, through presenting the anatomic and physiological bases, methods for examining the hearing and the balance, points out all etiological and clinical manifestations related to the disability problem from the beginning of this specific organ impair­ment, necessary for socio-communicative status of each individual. In the fourth part which refers to the medical bases of speech impairments, the author, with his didac­tical approach, starts with description of the anat­omic and physiological speech bases, and finishes with the basis of phoniatrics. The medical bases of the vision impairments are presented in the fifth part of the book. Information presented in this part of the book enables the reader to get acquainted with bases of the vision impairments, this important human sense that bears essential information on the existing of the complex everyday reality. Prof. Dr. Vladimir Trajkovski, the author of the textbook Medical Bases on Disability, additionally gives the references for this book, a very useful medical glossary and index of words that together with the other elements-the aesthetic cover page make the textbook successful from a technical point of view. Writing a book, especially a textbook for students is a difficult assignment, but at the same time it is a privilege too, because it is a possibility to help someone, and that is a special feeling when behind you stands one’s acknowledgement. I honestly hope that the author of this textbook will feel the students’ gratitude for helping them to surmount the material, the readers and people with disabili­ties’ gratitude as well.

113-127

Authors: Dobrinka GEORGIEVA, Ana STEFANOVSKA

It is a fact that voice pathology has an expressed frequent appearance in the last decades and the problem of voice disorders and their speech ther­apy assessment is not elaborated enough in the logopedical literature in Bulgaria and Macedonia. One of the basic factors on which treatment effec­tiveness depends is the correct diagnosis from logopedics point of view on which treatment pro­gram could be established. The purpose of the present article is to present a new instrument for a secondary voice assessment-an acoustic analysis of the voice as a part of Com­puterized Speech Lab (CSL) named Multi-Dimen­sional Voice Program (MDVP). There is no developed PhD on voice pathology the last 3 decades in Republic of Bulgaria. In compari­son with language, fluency and articulation disor­ders, voice disorders are considerably ignored and neglected. The speech-language pathologists do not feel very well prepared to work with this kind of pathology.

131-133

Authors: Tanja MISHOVSKA-STOJKOVSKA

Tanja Mishovska Stojkovska defended her master thisis on 5 June 2007 godina at Institute of Special Education and Rehabilitation at Faculty of Philosophy “Ss Cyril and Methodius” University-Skopje, before the commission consisted of mentor-Prof. Dr. Risto Petrov, Prof Dr. Dragoslav Kopachev and Prof. Dr. Goran Ajdinski.