This study was about the functional skills of Children with Special Needs in Luray II National High School-Special Education Class. As a pioneering batch of SPED-High School, it has been very important that functional skills must be assessed and developed. The main objectives of the study were: determine the demographic profile of student; identify the strength and weakness along their functional skills; provide appropriate strategies based on identified weaknesses; and propose intervention activities that may improve student’s functional skills. This study helped to improve the gap between the teaching and the application of information. It specialized on the cognitive and psychomotor abilities of Children with Special Needs by providing learning educational experiences which were visible, realistic and practical rather than abstract and hypothetical. There were six students with their parents and one teacher-researcher collaborated in the involvement of the assessment and evaluation of children’s functional skills. The questionnaires and checklist of functional skills were constructed to collect the information about functional skills tasks that the students were expected to perform. The demographic profile of each student with special need was used for the assessment of functional skill. Weaknesses and strengths were determined through the checklist technique with the three performance levels. The parents were interviewed to gather basic information and to collect backgrounds about their child’s functional skills. The instructional strategies and techniques were used to give interventions based on the performances of student’s functional skills. The intervention activities was proposed and provided which may help the students and be used by the parents along their way. As a result, according to the parents, they had benefited the program especially the assessment and the teaching interventions of functional skills. Through this, they could set future goals for their children. The researcher concluded that based on the assessment on the condition of students with special needs, the use of intervention activities: Video Modeling, video Prompting and Vide Chunking are deemed very significant in developing the functional skills of the students.
Special Education, Children with Special Needs, Functional Skills, Functional Skills of Children with Special Needs, Demographic Profile of Children with Special Needs, Strength and Weakness of Children with Special Needs, Appropriate Strategies in Teaching Children with Special Needs, Propose Intervention Activities, Training Design, Training Program, Student's Functional Skills, Development of Functional Skills of Children with Special Needs
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