Teachers' preparedness in teaching reading to children with mild mental retardation: Implications to teacher training

• Main Author: Hsu, Chin-Kang (Sammi)
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2002
• Subjects: Preparedness; Reading; Teachers > Training of; Teaching; Mentally handicapped children
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/3018
• Institution: De La Salle University

This study determines the teachers' preparedness in teaching reading to children with mild mental retardation.The descriptive method of research was utilized, employing such descriptive statistics as frequency distribution and percentage and mean score computation. The participants of this study consisted of 65 reading teachers of children with mild mental retardation who came from four SPED SILAHIS Centers in the city schools divisions of the Department of Education in Manila and one school with special classes in the division of Pasay. The findings obtained in this study indicate that the teachers of children with mild mental were predominantly female, middle aged, and have been teaching between 6 and 35 years. They were found to have knowledge of reading and the reading process, as well as the reading characteristics and skills of these children to a large extent. Similarly, the teachers were found to use teaching strategies in reading to a large extent.