Self-Disclosure toward Understanding Youth with Disabilities (preparation for Global IT Challenge for Youth with Disabilities 2016)
- Keywords
- Disability,Interpersonal Communication, and Social Penetration Theory
- Abstract
This study examines the way in which a trainer without communication or psychological skills, trains 300 Indonesian disabled youth in Jogjakarta, Cirebon, and Bogor. The trainings are done to prepare the selected disabled youth for a global IT competition that will be held at the end of this year, in China. The program that the trainer teaches is called Scratch Program, in which participants will learn on how to create two dimensional visual animation. The purpose of this research is to find out how the ‘untrained’ trainer communicates with disabled youth and deals with difficulties on the field. By using in-depth interview and field observation, the results are analyzed by Social Penetration Theory, or more specifically Self-Disclosure Concept. The results indicate that by opening oneself and accepting differences (i.e. impairment and language barrier) the trainer is able to communicate more successfully and interactively. Furthermore, eye contacts and gestures are not as important as visual aids or papers and pencils
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- © 2018, 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 - Diah Agung Esfandari AU - Syarif Maulana PY - 2017/11 DA - 2017/11 TI - Self-Disclosure toward Understanding Youth with Disabilities (preparation for Global IT Challenge for Youth with Disabilities 2016) BT - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Transformation in Communications 2017 (IcoTiC 2017) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 385 EP - 390 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://www.atlantis-press.com/article/25902423 ID - Esfandari2017/11 ER -