Parents’ Perspective Towards Inclusive Education for Children with Intellectual Disabilities in Indonesia
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.211210.006How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Inclusive Education; Parents’ Perspective; Children with Intellectual Disabilities
- Abstract
The implementation of inclusive education is a part of the school program which emerged as the realization from the program education for all which gives changes for children with special needs to learn along with the regular students at regular schools. This study aims to understand parents’ perception towards inclusive education for children with intellectual disabilities at schools. This study used a mixed method for the research. The validity of the questionnaire instrument tested by using Cronbach’s Alpha with the result of 0,801. The respondents sample size consists of 256 parents in total, who have children with intellectual ability differ from each other and all enrolled in school in the academic year 2018-2019. The data was analyzed using ANOVA with statistical SPSS 24 and the qualitative data was processed with Nvivo. The result of the study showed that parents support the implementation of inclusive education since it is believed to have many advantages that can be gained by the children with intellectual disabilities. This study suggested that teachers and parents should not only be connected for general communication but also connected to communicate about school programs related to the development of the children.
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- © 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Umi Safiul Ummah AU - Mohd Mokhtar Tahar AU - Mohd Hanafi bin Mohd Yasin PY - 2021 DA - 2021/12/13 TI - Parents’ Perspective Towards Inclusive Education for Children with Intellectual Disabilities in Indonesia BT - Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology and Education (ICITE 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 35 EP - 40 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211210.006 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.211210.006 ID - Ummah2021 ER -