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Volume 4 | Issue 3 | Year 2017 | Article Id. IJRES- V4I3P104 | DOI : https://doi.org/10.14445/23497157/IJRES-V4I3P104

The Need of Disability Awaraness Training for Regular Students in Inclusive School

Grahita Kusumastuti, Munawir Yusuf, Dwi Aries Himawanto

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Grahita Kusumastuti, Munawir Yusuf, Dwi Aries Himawanto, "The Need of Disability Awaraness Training for Regular Students in Inclusive School," International Journal of Recent Engineering Science (IJRES), vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 15-19, 2017. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/23497157/ IJRES- V4I3P104

Abstract

This research is aimed to know the need of sensitivity training towards children with special needs for regular students in inclusive school. This research belongs to survey research. The participants in this research are 120 regular students of senior high school and vocational high school at Surakarta, Indonesia. The researcher used questionnaire as data collection technique. The instrument contains five questions which measure the need of regular students of sensitivity training towards children with special need. The result of data collection was analyzed descriptively. The result of data collection shows that regular students in inclusive school need a training about children with special need. Based on the result of the research, it is suggested a training model which can be a training example for regular students.

Keywords

sensitivity,awareness, children with special need, inclusive education.

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