Email this article Effect of Intervention in Teaching Listening and Speaking Skills on Children with Intellectual Disabilities
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Intervention in teaching listening and speaking skills using communicative language teaching approach and teaching strategies adopted from Applied Behaviour Analysis was designed and tested in the current research. Non-randomized pre-test post-test control group design was used in quasi-experimental research where fifty-two children with mild and moderate intellectual disabilities fulfilling inclusive and exclusive criteria were placed into experimental and control groups from five special schools of Jammu district in J&K. BASIC-MR, a validated tool was used on both the groups as a pretest and post-test. Children in experimental groups were taught listening and speaking skills using communicative language teaching approach. ANCOVA analysis indicated F (1, 28) = 118.401, p =.000 in the children with mild intellectual disabilities, and F (1, 32) = 77.789, p =.000 in children with moderate intellectual disabilities. It was inferred that intervention was effective in developing listening and speaking skills of the children with mild and moderate intellectual disabilities.
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