Terapi Remedial Untuk Meningkatkan Kemampuan Membaca Dan Menyimak Pada Anak Dengan Disabilitas Intelektual
Abstract: The children with
intellectual disability have characteristics, such as significant disability in
functioning whether it is intellectually or adaptively which is realised
through the ability of conceptual, social, and practice. This situation appears
before the age of 18 yeears old.In educational level as Elementary School,
children are often emphasized in order to have reading ability. If children in
early educational level do not have reading ability, they will have
difficulties in learning such kinds of subject on next level. Other than
obtaining the reading practice at school, children also obtain such lesson as
gathering a story. In this case, children should be able to comprehend the
story, memorize the character of the story, and comprehend the background and plot
of the story. The activities of reading and gathering a story for children who
are classified into intellectual disability will have more difficulties rather
than those children who do not have disabilities and have education in regular
school. The researcher design the modification program for those children like
this which is known by remedial therapy. Remedial therapy is a healing or
improvement effort, an enhancement of someone’s intellectual to be normal or
near normal (Mangunsong, 2009).
This research was quantitative research which used Wilcoxon analysis. The
data were collected through experiment method with pre-experiment design. The
technique used to obtain the sample was purposive sampling. The subject of this
research were the children who have intellectual disability, in amount of three
children. The result of this research showed that the probability of reading
ability was 0.028 (p)<0.05, while the probability of gathering a story was
0.027 (p)<0.05. It means that there were effects of remedial therapy toward
reading ability and gathering a story on children’s intellectual disability.
Key words: Remedial Therapy,
The Abilities of Reading and Gathering a Story, Intellectual Disability
Penulis: Putu Ayu Diyantari, I
Gusti Ayu Putu Wulan Budisetyani
Kode Jurnal: jppsikologiperkembangan160041
