Activities teaching practices of children with disabilities in special education program in primar school in Kota Bharu

• Main Author: Rahman, Soraya
• Format: Monograph
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Sains Malaysia 2015
• Subjects: LC4001-4806.5 Children and youth with disabilities. Learning disabled children and youth; R Medicine (General); RA440-440.87 Study and teaching. Research
• Online Access: http://eprints.usm.my/60637/1/SORAYA%20BINTI%20ABD%20RAHMAN%20-%20e.pdf; http://eprints.usm.my/60637/

Physical and recreational activities are important and good for promoting development in learning, growth and health among children. Schools become the most important and suitable institution to promote the physical activity in children .Physical education (PE) help to develop and shaping the children’s behaviour. Thus well taught physical education (PE) and some supports given by the special education teachers may give some encouragement for children with disabilities to participate in physical activities. Special education teachers are teachers who responsible to teach and care for the children with special needs. Their responsibilities are quite heavy and challenging because they need to handle these children who suffered from mental, emotional, vision, and learning disabilities. They also play a big and important role to teach the skills and provide maximum physical activity time within the class period. Subsequently, 46 respondents were selected from five different schools to explore the recreational and physical activity teaching practices for children with disabilities in special education program in primary school in Kota Bharu. Teaching practices and teacher’s perception children with disabilities in physical and recreational activities were gathered and developed through questionnaire, which was modified from Hodge et.al (2004). All the data were analysed by using Simple frequency distribution method because it is easy and save time while for the data had been computed manually (DeVos, 2001). The important findings were discussed at length to determine the research objectives that led to the conclusions of this research. On the analysis of data and conclusions relevant recommendations were formulated.