The Learning of Sholat (Prayer) Movement for Mentally Disabled Children through Occupational Therapy

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10.2991/iccd-19.2019.64How to use a DOI?

Keywords

learning, sholat movement, occupational therapy, mentally disabled children

Abstract

This study aims to explore occupational therapy which can be used to train mild mentally disabled children to learn sholat movement. The study is a descriptive qualitative using field research. The result indicated that the purpose of occupational therapy was to stimulate the development of sensory and motor nerves of the mild mentally disabled children through body exercises and games in the form of joyful learning so that mild mentally disabled children could enjoy the therapy comfortably. Body exercises that can be done through sholat movement include: first, walking in one lane (for standing upright and i’tidal movement); second, gymnastics part of body, that is when holding the knee (for bowing movement); three, ‘Old McDonald’ game, that is when lifting both hands next to the ears (for takbiratul ihram movements); and last, ‘Cublek-cublek Suweng’ game (for prostrations movements, sitting between two prostrations, and sitting tahiyat akhir).

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Husnul Khotimah
PY  - 2019/10
DA  - 2019/10
TI  - The Learning of Sholat (Prayer) Movement for Mentally Disabled Children through Occupational Therapy
BT  - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Community Development (ICCD 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 240
EP  - 242
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/iccd-19.2019.64
DO  - 10.2991/iccd-19.2019.64
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