Parental Support For Children With Intellectual Disability: Practices, Challenges and opportunities at Tekle Haimanot General Primary School
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2021-06
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Abstract
The major purpose of this study was to assess the practice, challenges, and opportunities of
parental support for children with intellectual disability at Tekelehayimanot general primary
school. To achieve the stated objectives, a case study, and qualitative research design were used.
Parents, teachers, counselor, and school directors were selected by available sampling technique.
Interviews and focus group discussion, were used as instruments of data collection and data was
audio recorded and note taken. The collected data was analyzed through description, coding and
categorizing in to themes and sub themes and interpretation of the major themes were used to
reach at major findings of the study. Based on the data analyzed, the researcher reach at the
following major findings were identified. First, there were better parental support practice for
children with intellectual disability on the ground. Such as, provision of educational materials and
provide training on four basic adaptive behavioral skills. Second, lot of support practice was left
to mothers and mothers have more burden than that of fathers in supporting practice. Third, with
regard to the practice of supporting their children’s education and adaptive behavioral skills
training development, there were lots of challenges like low economic status and large family size,
low educational status, lack of training, and impact of corona virus with some opportunities to
children with intellectual disability and their parents. Such as, social support, modeling, learn
from other, attitudinal change towards disability and other opportunities which was important for
both parents of children with intellectual disability and their children. Based on the findings of the
study conclusions and recommendations were forwarded
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Parents, Support, Children with Intellectual Disability, Intellectual Disability, practice, challenge, opportunity and Basic Adaptive Behavioral Skills