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Kulwinder Pal, Lovely Professional University Unit 15: Mentally Retarted: Prevention and Teaching Strategies

Unit 15: Mentally Retarted: Prevention and Teaching Notes
Strategies

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction
15.1 Prevention for MR Children
15.2 Teaching Strategies
15.3 Education in General School (Mainstreaming)
15.4 Role of the Teacher
15.5 Summary
15.6 Keywords
15.7 Review Questions
15.8 Further Readings

Objectives

The objectives of this unit can be summarized as below:
• to know about the prevention of MR chirlden.
• to explain about the teaching strategies.
• to analyse the education in general school and role of teacher.

Introduction

The development of child’s personality and his general adjustment can not be described by the
influence of parents and family, of the community and the school practices but mainly depends on
the mental health of the learners and the teacher, It is said that mother is first teacher or equal to the
several teacher. The home is the principal environmental factor contributing to his personality
development and his adjustment, and there after, during his school years. he is still subject to the
influences of home and community. Especially his home should have provided for his basic organic
needs and should have furnished an environment well suited to meet his needs for security and
adequacy. The pleasant and satisfactory experiences should be provided for the personality
development and adjustment of the student.

15.1 Prevention for MR Children
Preventive measures of mental retardation:The intelligence tests should be administered at the time
of admission in the school. A check list may be given to the parents to know above his behaviours
and activities. The parents should be educated in this context.
Treatment of mental retardation: The special educational programmes should be used for such
students. These programmes have been discussed under heading of education of mentally retarded
children.
There are two provisions remedical programme: (1) Prevention (2) Special Education
(1) Prevention: Generally compensatory education aims at preventing developmental defect that
interfere with educational progress in the disadvantaged pre-school child. This project was proved
successful in USA. Mainly it demonstrates the effectiveness of early and comprehensive intervention

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