Primary School Curriculum For Educable Mentally Retarded Children ...

NotesFAQContact Us Collection Thesaurus AdvancedSearch Tips Peer reviewed only Full text available on ERIC Collection Thesaurus BrowseThesaurus Include Synonyms Include Dead terms Download full textERIC Number: ED511255Record Type: Non-JournalPublication Date: 2010-MarPages: 13Abstractor: As ProvidedISBN: N/AISSN: ISSN-1548-6613EISSN: N/AAvailable Date: N/APrimary School Curriculum for Educable Mentally Retarded Children: A Turkish CaseDemirel, MelekOnline Submission, US-China Education Review v7 n3 p79-91 Mar 2010Educable mental retardation is a delay in acquiring basic reading, writing and counting skills emerging through late speaking and linguistic development along with social, emotional or behavioral problems. It is pointed out that such children have intelligence in the 45-74 range, and that they are incompetent in terms of language skills, perception power, memory capacity, imagination and creativeness. Primary school curriculum for educable mentally retarded children was adopted so as to implement beginning in 2001-2002 academic year. The curriculum was designed so as to apply in primary education schools where educable mentally retarded children attend or in private classes included in the body of primary education schools. It was designed in order for such children to improve their skills of understanding themselves, establishing positive social relations, adjusting to the social, technological and physical environment, and surviving independently. This current study is based on a qualitative method, and is focused on educable mentally retarded children who are at primary school age in Turkey. Having described the characteristics of such children, their needs are explained, the curriculum developed for such children is described, and teachers' views concerning the implementation of the curriculum are presented in this research.Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Mental Retardation, Foreign Countries, Physical Environment, Language Skills, Elementary School Curriculum, Intelligence Quotient, Cognitive Ability, Memory, Imagination, Creativity, Curriculum Development, Skill Development, Social Development, Special EducationPublication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - EvaluativeEducation Level: Elementary EducationAudience: N/ALanguage: EnglishSponsor: N/AAuthoring Institution: N/AIdentifiers - Location: TurkeyGrant or Contract Numbers: N/AAuthor Affiliations: N/A Privacy | Copyright | Contact Us | Selection Policy | API | MetricsJournals | Non-Journals | Download | Submit | Multimedia | Widget