Open AccessLEVEL OF INDEPENDENT LIVING SKILLS OF DAY SCHOLAR MODERATE MENTALLY RETARDED CHILDREN
Author(s) -
Aruna Anchal,
Poonam Rani
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
scholarly research journal for interdisciplinary studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2319-4766
pISSN - 2278-8808
DOI - 10.21922/srjis.v9i66.6853
Subject(s) - activities of daily living , psychology , mentally retarded , developmental psychology , mental age , rehabilitation , independent living , reading (process) , clinical psychology , psychiatry , medicine , gerontology , cognition , neuroscience , political science , law
Mental-retardation run with life, it is untreatable. But it can person having such situation can be trained by various methods. Mental-retardation cannot be said as mental disease. Mental-retardation is a situation where mental age is not matching with chronological age. The children having moderate mental retardation and their independent living skills can be assessed by scientific method. The aim of our study To find out the levels of achievement in independent living skills of day scholar moderate mentally retarded children Methods and materials The present study is a descriptive research to find out the achievement of independent living skills in day scholars with moderate mental retardation 3-18 years of age in State Institute of Rehabilitation Training and Research (SIRTAR), Gandhi Nagar, Rohtak. The sample consists 20 children from day care with moderate mental retardation. Behavioural Assessment Scale for Indian Children – Mental-retardation-BASIC-MR ( having two parts -Part A and B) find out the levels of achievement in independent living skills. All seven domains BASIC-MR were assessed in day scholar moderate mentally retarded children. Results: Mean score is 375.35 and SD is 54.86. The mean values of language and reading writing domains are higher. The mean values of M, ADL, N.T., D.S. and P.M. domains are lower. Conclusion: Day scholar children remain lack behind in achieving ILS. Therefore this was not an effective service.