Parental Involvement in the Education Of Their Children with Intellectual  -  Disability in Bahir Dar City Administration, , Ethiopia

Shiferaw, Hana

dc.contributor.author	Shiferaw, Hana
dc.date.accessioned	2022-08-16T10:14:05Z
dc.date.available	2022-08-16T10:14:05Z
dc.date.issued	2018-06
dc.identifier.uri	http://ir.bdu.edu.et/handle/123456789/14000
dc.description.abstract	This study is conducted to investigate parental involvement in the education of their children with intellectual disability. The study employed explanatory sequential mixed approach in which the quantitative data and results provide a general picture of the research problem. Specifically through qualitative data collection, is needed to refine, extend, or explain the general picture. To this end, four research questions were set to guide the study and 59 parents of children with intellectual disability were selected by simple random sampling method for the quantitative phase and six parents of children with intellectual disability were selected by purposeful sampling for the qualitative data. MANO VA and Pearson correlation were employed to analyze the qsantitative data and the qualitative data were analyzed by thematic analysis. The result form MANOVA indicated A= 0.35, F = 1.844, df = (15,127), p = (0.035) multivariate rz2 = 0.165 which implied that parent's education have significant effect on the improvement of adaptive behavior skills of their children with intellectual disability. But it is not significant on each adaptive behavior skill (communication skill, social skill, practical academy skill, self help skill and safety skill). The result from Pearson correlation (r = 0. 094) implied there is no statistically significant correlation between parent's involvement in the school and education level of parents at (p>O. 01). The result of qualitative data indicated that factors like low economic income, age of the child, lack of knowledge and enough time to apply practical educations and some parent's pessimistic view on improvement of their children education affecting the involvement of parents in the education of their children. The study recommended that parent's involvement in the area of adaptive behavior skills should be scientific in order to make a better life for children with intellectual disability. The government should have also put effort in decreasing the economic burdens of parent's	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.subject	Special Needs and Inclusive Education	en_US
dc.title	Parental Involvement in the Education Of Their Children with Intellectual - Disability in Bahir Dar City Administration, , Ethiopia	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US