Teens’ Coping/Non-Coping With Communication Difficulties in a Special Boarding School Setting

Abstract

<p align="center"> </p><p>The paper focuses on teenagers` with special needs communicative stress and coping. Russia has little experience in inclusive education and adolescents with special needs (health impairments: auditory, visual, speech and motor) as a rule study in special boarding schools. Similar phenomena in typically developed teenagers (12-13 yrs old, n = 100) and their peers having visual (n = 30), auditory (n = 30), speech (n = 25) and motor (n = 15) disorders are compared: communication difficulties, stress experience and coping strategies. Results show teenagers` with special needs vulnerability and disadvantage: only part of them use resources and overcome communication difficulties successfully, while the others are not able to cope with chronic communicative stress.</p>

Self-Esteem of Teens with Visual Impairments as a Predictor of Hardiness

“…This problem is especially important in critical periods of life, including adolescence. Adolescents with visual impairments must cope with hardships due to visual limitations and typical difficulties of their age, which are related to increasing needs in autonomy and independence (Samokhvalova & Kryukova, 2017). Therefore, the study of personal and behavioral overcoming resources of adolescents with visual impairments is an important task.…”