The COVID-19 Pandemic: An Assessment of the Emergency Remote Education Program Based on Providing At-Home Support to Parents of Children with Down Syndrome

To study maternal question-asking of Taiwanese children during free play and at meal time each mother-child dyad was videotaped at home. The mothers of children with Down syndrome asked more questions across different types of question during free play, at meal time, and for the sum of these two. Although no group difference was found for producing each type of question during free play, these 20 mothers asked more directive questions at meal time. Combined conditions analysis showed they used more directive questions and fewer requests for clarification than the 20 mothers of children with no disability.

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Alternative Augmentative Communication "Wofal" for Children with Down Syndrome

IJDS Indonesian Journal of Disability Studies ◽

10.21776/ub.ijds.2021.008.02.09 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (02) ◽

pp. 361-366

Author(s):

Yuli Sari ◽

Rini Lestari ◽

Neneng Komalasari

Keyword(s):

Down Syndrome ◽

Augmentative Communication ◽

Daily Activities ◽

Children With Down Syndrome ◽

Communication Problems ◽

The Subject ◽

At Home

This research is motivated by the existence of communication problems in children with Down syndrome. Communication problems on the subject are related to the use of language in their environment. The data obtained from the subject's parents, teachers and tutors experienced problems in expressing their own desires. The purpose of this study is to help subjects communicate with their environment. Communication uses tools that are made based on the needs and abilities of the current subject. The tool created is called "Wofal". This tool is in the form of modified images with an attractive shape and easy to use subjects. The first stage of using the tool introduces the images that the subject will use in communicating. Second, the subject was asked to stick to his wishes and choose an image. The picture consists of the subjects' daily activities at home and at school. After intervention to the subject, the results were obtained. According to teachers, parents and tutors, this tool makes it easier for subjects to communicate. Usually teachers, tutors and parents do not understand what the subject wants. After this tool the crying behavior of the subject became less. So, this tool makes it easier for subjects to communicate in their environment.

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Maternal Question-Asking of Japanese Children with down Syndrome and with No Disability

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.2001.88.3c.1096 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 88 (3_suppl) ◽

pp. 1096-1098 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Su-Fen Huang ◽

Manabu Oi

Keyword(s):

Down Syndrome ◽

Free Play ◽

Japanese Children ◽

Question Asking ◽

Children With Down Syndrome ◽

Meal Time ◽

At Home

In an extension of maternal question-asking to Japanese children during free play and at meal time each of 20 mother-child dyads was videotaped at home. The mothers of children with Down syndrome asked more questions during free play, at meal time, and for the sum of these two. Also, they produced more requests for information during free play and for combined conditions and fewer clarification requests during free play. The results were compared to those of the previous study of Taiwanese mothers.

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Modification of the Development of Children's Fitness Cards and Fitness Love Board for Down Syndrome School-Age Children in the Fit 5 Special Olympics Progam

Budapest International Research and Critics in Linguistics and Education (BirLE) Journal ◽

10.33258/birle.v4i1.1601 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 277-287

Author(s):

Yohanes Giovani Pion Makung ◽

Gigih Siantoro ◽

Abdul Rachman Syam Tuasikal

Keyword(s):

Down Syndrome ◽

School Age Children ◽

Physical Education Teachers ◽

Special Olympics ◽

Children With Down Syndrome ◽

Analysis Technique ◽

Validation Score ◽

Fitness Training ◽

Teachers And Parents ◽

At Home

From the lock down condition, Down Syndrome children who are used to activities at school become lazy to do fitness exercises at home, while parents also increase their activities by accompanying their children while at home from morning to night. For this reason, it is necessary to provide a home fitness training program for Down Syndrome children by doing the Fit 5 Special Olympics program. And it is necessary to make a Fitness card and a fitness love board so that children with Down syndrome are more excited. The purpose of this study is to establish cooperation between physical education teachers and parents in maintaining the fitness of Down Syndrome children while at home, and to help maintain the fitness of Down Syndrome children during the lock down period this year and in the coming years if there is a lock down period. again. The subjects of this study were 3 Down syndrome students from Special Olympics Surabaya. The design of this research is development research with research instruments in the form of validation sheets and video recordings that will be used to draw descriptive conclusions. The data analysis technique used is descriptive. Product trial validation was carried out by 6 experts who have experience in treating children with Down syndrome and 3 parents of students. The results showed that the average validation score of the experts was 98% and the average validation score of the parents was 98% which was in the very good category. And it was concluded that the fit card and the love child fit board are fit for mass production. Suggestion for all of us is never to force a Down syndrome child to be willing to follow fitness movements according to our wishes, but let them do it themselves according to their own abilities.

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