Activity daily living (ADL) of young people with intellectual disabilities

DOI

10.2991/icddims-17.2018.9How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Intellectual disabilities, Daily Activity Living, Teenager.

Abstract

Intellectual disability is one of mental disorder occured during developmental time and resulting low intellectual function compare to average people in general and also the decreasing function of adaptive behavior. Adaptive behavior is the ability to conduct daily activities such as communicating, socializing, and self care. A child is predicted to have obstacle in adaptive behavior if his/her development is delayed from the developmental milestone since two months to five years old. Thus, in their teenage time, the children with intellectual disability are still not able to act like normal teenagers. Young people with intellectual disabilities tend to achieved their own needs, however, their efforts are often failed. These can lead to deviant behavior in young people with intellectual disabilities and interrupting their social development. Young people with intellectul disabilities experiencing limitation in trying to conduct their daily activities, thus they are highly dependent to others. This research is aiming at understanding how is the achievement of daily activities of young people with intellectual disabilities. The research is conducted at special school for disabled SLB-C at Bandung City using interview technique to informants of young people with intellectual disabilities. The results is expected to be able to explain how far the informants conduct their daily activities, such as wearing clothes, eat and drink, toiletting and many more. The result shows that almost all informant are able to conduct their daily actitivies. It is can be concluded that children with intellectual disabilities have the possibility to be upgraded in accordance with their own self capacities with opportunities and guidance provided to children with intellectual disabilites.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yustika Dewi Yustika Tri
AU  - Nurliana Apsari Nurliana Cipta
AU  - Budhi Wibhawa Budhi
AU  - Sahadi Humaedi Sahadi
PY  - 2017/11
DA  - 2017/11
TI  - Activity daily living (ADL) of young people with intellectual disabilities
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Diversity and Disability Inclusion in Muslim Societies (ICDDIMS 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 40
EP  - 43
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icddims-17.2018.9
DO  - 10.2991/icddims-17.2018.9
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