Improving the Ability to Memorize The Alphabet in Mild Intellectual Disability Student using the Letter Floor Puzzle

DOI

10.2991/indoeduc-18.2018.20How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Intellectual Disability; memorize the alphabet; letter floor puzzle media

Abstract

Intellectual disability is refers to an individual who have barriers receive and process information, so it requires a learning modification. Difficulties that are often found in intellectual disability children including lack of interest in learning, lack of motivation that affects the ability called memorization. To overcome these problems, learning media that can attract interest and learning abilities from intellectual disability students are required. These abilities can be developed optimally. The purpose of this study is to see the effectiveness of media puzzles, the basic foundation of the ability to read the alphabet to the intellectual disability student. This research is motivated by the existence of subjects who have not been able to recite all the alphabets at the grade 6 SDLB level. Years of studying at the school, he was only able to pronounce vowels. The interest in contrasting colors and the penchant for puzzles made the researchers take the initiative to apply it to the process of memorizing alphabets. The study used an experimental method with A-B-A design SSR method to see the effectiveness of letter floor puzzle media. The results showed an increase in the ability to memorize on the subject of the study. Based on the results of this study, it can be concluded that media puzzles can improve the ability to memorize the alphabet in mild intellectual disability students.

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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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AU  - Gian Asri Septiany
AU  - Dina Istiqomah Rahayu
AU  - Whisqa Dayani
PY  - 2018/11
DA  - 2018/11
TI  - Improving the Ability to Memorize The Alphabet in Mild Intellectual Disability Student using the Letter Floor Puzzle
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd INDOEDUC4ALL - Indonesian Education for All (INDOEDUC 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 72
EP  - 74
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/indoeduc-18.2018.20
DO  - 10.2991/indoeduc-18.2018.20
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