EFFICACY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERVENTION IN SPECIAL EDUCATION FOR CHILDREN WITH MODERATE MENTAL RETARDATION

In the current study the researcher has studied the Psycho-social development of
children with moderate mental retardation from residential schools. The pre-testing
was done by administering the Behaviour Assessment Scales for Indian Children with
Mental Retardation by Reeta Peshawaria and S. Venkatesan. After pre-testing
Intervention Program was planned. Approximately five sessions for every item from
each domain for each student from experimental groups of residential school during
the period of 6-7 weeks were conducted. After the intervention Program post-testing
was done by administering the same scales stated above. The results in consolidated
manner indicated that except on domestic-social domain, on remaining five domains,
viz., motor, ADL, language, reading-writing, number-time, and prevocational, overall
the MMRs show poor performance at pretesting level. To lift them up from that level,
the intervention has to be more rigorous. It has also shown that no significant gender
difference was found as a result of psychological intervention