Social rehabilitation and integration of children with disabilities into society

The article deals with the problem of social rehabilitation of children with disabilities at the regional level. On the basis of monitoring, sociological and expert survey there are identified the priorities and challenges for the leading forms of rehabilitation of disabled children: educational, professional, social and socio-cultural. It presents the experience of the Republic of Marij El in provision of: 1) social pedagogical services in correctional and general educational establishments; inclusive and distance education by adapted programmes; 2) social employment services for job placement of disabled people at the quota-based and newly created specialized jobs; 3) social cultural services with the use of hippotherapy, art therapy, bibliotherapy, etc. Taking into account the identified problems in the social rehabilitation of children with disabilities the authors present proposals for creation of additional conditions for their integration into society.