Parental involment and exceptions in promoting social and personal skills of mentally challenged children

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2009
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UAS, Dharwad
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A correlation design to know parental involvement and expectations in promoting social and personal skills of mentally challenged children was undertaken during the year 2008-09 in Hubli and Dharwad city of Karnataka state. Mentally challenged children in the age group of 5-16 years formed the population. The sample of 53 children were drawn from 3 special schools. BASIC-MR developed by Peshawaria and Venkatesan (1992) was administered to teachers to assess the social and personal skills of children. Parental involvement and expectations was assessed by using self-structured tool. A combination of Aoran et al. (1969) and Venkataramiah (1983) was used to assess socio-economic status of family. Results revealed that a higher percentage of children (39.62%) had acquired moderate level of skills followed by low (35.5%) and high levels (24.53%). Age of children, degree of disability, associated disability, age at identification of disability and degree of constraint had significant influence on the acquisition of skills among children. Majority of parents (71.70%) fell in low involvement in developing the skills among children and 28.30 per cent had moderate involvement while none of the parents were in high level. Child’s age, degree of disability, associated disability, age at admission to special schools and degree of constraint had significant influence on the parental involvement. More than 96 per cent had low expectations and very few (3.77%) had moderate expectations in acquisition of skills of children. Ordinal position, father’s occupation had significant influence on the parental expectations. Parental involvement brought a variation of 61per cent on social and personal skills of children while degree of constraint influenced to the extent of only 4 per cent
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