Teaching social and domestic skills to the students with mental retardation
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2012
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University of Management and Technology
Abstract
An educational program for Mentally Retarded children was implemented and
evaluated. This study was planned to teach social and domestic skills to the children with
Mental Retardation. Through this program social and domestic skills of Mentally
Retarded children were enhanced by involving them in activities on social and domestic
skills. Checklist was used to collect the data.Goal attainment scale was used to measure
goal achieved by every individual. Seventeenmentally retarded children were selected
from the total population of children attending the Special Education Centre, at District
Rahim YarKhan Punjab (Pakistan). Pre-post-test comparisons were made to measure the
number of goals achieved by the children after receiving the intervention.Results
indicated that the children's goal attainment changed positively and significantly from the
pre-test to the post-test.
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M.Phil Thesis, Teaching, Domestic Skills