The aim of this program was to enable students with learning disabilities to be able to more fully enjoy their leisure activities, and enrich their free time with other disabled persons as well as other members of the community. It is hoped that this ...
The aim of this program was to enable students with learning disabilities to be able to more fully enjoy their leisure activities, and enrich their free time with other disabled persons as well as other members of the community. It is hoped that this will assist these students to be better integrated into a variety of environments and to actively participate in various activities in which they can play a very important role.
In this study, special education students at the junior high school were observed in their classes to establish and target their interests and needs. Further, we wanted to closely examine their needs for recreational programs to help us design, organize and improve such programs. This need became apparent after analyzing the failure of special education students to adequately develop their social skills. We hoped to evaluate and influence that process, in order help the special education students to improve their social skills.
In order to evaluate the effect that activities provided in the program of students with disabilities had on their social development, a single group of pre- and post- tests was designed. The Independence factor was designated to evaluate individual activities, while dependence factor was designated to evaluate the social values of students with disabilities within a social context.
An activity program for students was implemented to better establish the situation in both pre-test and post-test scenarios. This was done along with constant evaluation of the activities and their results, to observe and understand the evolution of the mediation in the students behavior. The research program ran from May until October 2011, and the observation of classes occurred 24 times, over the course of this time period. This evaluation was done once per week for 45 minutes. The activities took place in special afternoon classes after school hours, and student sentiment was gauged in consideration of this flexibility.
Activities in the program the results of applying the pre-test, post-test twice, to assess changes in social functioning of both the individual and group dynamics. The specific conclusions are as follows:
First, a special education students at the junior high school class activities program of individual and social function, self-help, move, work, communication, and is effective in improving social skills.
Secondly, that the student activities program for special education students at the junior high school class level help to raise the level of social functioning, self-help, move, work, communication, and overall social dynamic between the special education students and the school community as a whole.
The results obtained and discussed in this study have implications for future recreational programs and activities in that they show that such programs and activities are to be based on systematic and step-by-step development. These programs and activities will improve participation in the educational system for the affected students. More research has also proved to be consistent with these results to the extent that the execution of such programs can be objectively looked forward to.