Enhancing Self-Help Skills of Children with Exceptional Needs in a Public SPED Center through Interrelated Need-Based Operations (INO)
- Author Inoamor Deseo Yen
- DOI http://wwj
- Country : Philippines
- Subject : Education
Keywords : self-help skills, special education, positive reinforcement, instructional videos
Abstract
Self-help skills are vital to children growing up as it enables them to adapt to their immediate environment. But for children with exceptional needs, self-help skills mean surviving on day to day basis. This practical and reactive action research investigated the efficacy of Interrelated Need-Based Operations (INO) in enhancing self-help skills of children with exceptional needs in Catarman SPED Center. Using the mixed methods concurrent embedded design approach, the observation checklist of the pupils’ self-help skills along with dressing, food preparation, and grooming, and hygiene as well as an interview with the parents were administered simultaneously. The observation scores were analyzed through descriptive statistics and the Wilcoxon Signed-Rank test evaluated the test of difference. The parents’ responses were subjected to thematic analysis. Total population purposive sampling technique were used to identify and sample the participants. Findings revealed that there was a small significant difference in the pupils’ self-help skills before and after INO was administered. To corroborate these, the testaments of the parents showed that INO expedites the cultivation of self-help skills as it facilitated dressing maneuvers, serve up food preparation practices, and nurtured grooming and hygiene. It is recommended that learners in the SPED class be given enough time and effort in terms of enhancing their self-help skills. They are important members of society, hence they should be treated as one.
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