Proceedings of the 1st Seminar and Workshop on Research Design, for Education, Social Science, Arts, and Humanities, SEWORD FRESSH 2019, April 27 2019, Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia

Research Article

The Modification of Traditional Games to Improve the Adaptability Children with Intellectual Disability

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.27-4-2019.2286842,
        author={Esty Zyadatul Khasanah and Gunarhadi  Gunarhadi and Asrowi  Asrowi},
        title={The Modification of Traditional Games to Improve the Adaptability Children with Intellectual Disability },
        proceedings={Proceedings of the 1st Seminar and Workshop on Research Design, for Education, Social Science, Arts, and Humanities, SEWORD FRESSH 2019, April 27 2019, Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia},
        publisher={EAI},
        proceedings_a={SEWORD FRESSH},
        year={2019},
        month={9},
        keywords={intellectual disability children traditional game modification adaptation},
        doi={10.4108/eai.27-4-2019.2286842}
    }
    
  • Esty Zyadatul Khasanah
    Gunarhadi Gunarhadi
    Asrowi Asrowi
    Year: 2019
    The Modification of Traditional Games to Improve the Adaptability Children with Intellectual Disability
    SEWORD FRESSH
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.27-4-2019.2286842
Esty Zyadatul Khasanah1,*, Gunarhadi Gunarhadi1, Asrowi Asrowi1
  • 1: Graduate of Special Education, Universitas Sebelas Maret, Indonesia
*Contact email: zyadatul16@student.uns.ac.id

Abstract

There are many ways can be done to improve the ability of self-adjustment for intellectual disability child. One of them is by organizing play activity with traditional games. This play activity makes children directly involved in aspect of cognitive, affective and psychomotor. Traditional games are found in many places with different names, which is used in this research, namely engklek, sack race, jump rope, kucing dan tikus, boi-boian and bentengan, then modification. This research aims to determine the effectiveness of traditional games to improve the adaptability of intellectual disability children at SLB Harmony Autism Special School in Surakarta. The subjects of this research were 30 intellectual disabilitystudents. This research used a development method, means that research which aims to develop and produce products. Data obtained through questionnaires in the form of Likert-scale were analyzed by the following steps: change the results of the checklist data into quantitative data, calculate the total score in each aspect, the percentage score for each aspect of the obtained assessment is converted into a traditional game modification quality category. In conclusion, the modification traditional game effective for improve the adaptability of intellectual disability children.