Decision Making Skill among 8 standard Children with Hearing Impairment studying in Inclusive Set-up

Authors: [1] Ms. Shobha N. Odunavar [2] Prof. (Rtd) Premlatha Sharma

Pages: 69-71

Abstract:

Life Skill Education is one of the Co-scholastic activity taught in School , which includes the 10 core life skills suggested by the WHO those are: Decision making, Problem solving, Creative thinking, Critical thinking, Effective communication, Interpersonal relationship skills, self-awareness, Empathy Coping with emotions, Coping with stress. Decision making is a process and more over it is a significant living skill which is learned, like the other skills, to be able to become efficient in the filed, time and life experiences are necessary. Teachers have been trained to carry out all the Co-Scholastic aspects including the life skills education. Life skills are required to lead a healthy and wealthy life on day to day basis. Education in regular school includes Children with Special Needs, who are not excluded children with hearing Impairment. Hence, need was felt to find out the level of decision making skills in routine life among the children with hearing impairment studying in 8th standard of inclusive set-up in Mysore city. Objective of the study is to identify the decision making skills in routine life among the 8th standard children. Descriptive research design was used with 9 students as participants. Questionnaire was prepared to assess the decision making skills. The data analysed with the help of measures of central tendency. It was found that 60% of the participants given correct responses significantly. It shows that Decision making skill requires high level of cognitive process and critical thinking abilities to make right decision at right time. As far as children with hearing impairment are concern, even though they are included in the regular school, they will get wider scope for holistic development when compare to other set of schooling but productive development is still questionable.