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| Adaptive Life Skills of Special Education Pupils of Saluysoy Elementary School, Meycauayan City, Bulacan |
Angel C. Bautista
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Abstract:
The nature concern of this study is to describe and evaluate the adaptive life skills of Special Education pupils with Intellectual Disability in Saluysoy Elementary School, Meycauayan City, Bulacan. The case study method was used in this research. There were 10 pupils with intellectual disability whose age ranges from 5 to 9 years old, assessed by their parents on adaptive life skills and were chosen by purposive sampling. The instrument used to gather data was a devised questionnaire and its sub-constructs was adapted from the Adaptive Behavior Assessment Scale Edition II, composed of conceptual, social, and practical domains. Findings showed that the conceptual skills recorded a weighted mean of 1.05, social skills recorded a weighted mean of 1.08, and practical skills recorded a weighted mean of 1.30 and 0.75, all of them were interpreted never when needed. Moreover, the adaptive life skills of pupils with intellectual disability when grouped according to age and years in the school found to be significant since the computed exceeds the critical f-value given, thus, the decision to reject the null hypotheses; furthermore, there is no significant difference exist among pupils with Intellectual Disability on their adaptive life skills in terms of the three domains. It is recommended that parents, teachers, family, and the whole community have to be actively involved in educating, understanding, and accepting children with special needs in order to mold them into dignified citizens they ought to be in the future. Furthermore, future researches is advise to utilized other instruments to further develop the study exploring on the possibilities of special education for pupils with intellectual disability.
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