The purpose of the paper was to analyze the differences in support needs for students with intellectual disabilities in special schools and special classes. In order to conduct this study, 25 students with intellectual disabilities in special schools ...
The purpose of the paper was to analyze the differences in support needs for students with intellectual disabilities in special schools and special classes. In order to conduct this study, 25 students with intellectual disabilities in special schools and 21 students with intellectual disabilities in special classes were selected and answered to some questions through the interview and survey. In the end, the result was analyzed by SPSS program. In this process, second part of Support Intensity Scale-Children’s version in Korean was used. With this tool, differences in overall support needs and specific activities’ needs of the two groups.
As a result, there was not a meaningful difference between the sum of needs for students with intellectual disabilities in special schools and special classes, however, there was a meaningful difference between needs for students with intellectual disabilities in special schools and special classes in parts of family life activity, health and safety activity, social activity and self-defence activity. The four areas of activities which show the meaningful difference in support needs for the students of the two groups are over the half of seven major activities which are family life activity, health and safety activity, social activity, self-defence activity, school involvement activity, community activity and school learning activity. Given that the performance of students with intellectual disabilities is inversely proportional with their support needs, this result showed students with intellectual disabilities in special classes have lower performance levels than students with intellectual disabilities in special schools.
In conclusion, this paper means students with intellectual disabilities in special classes have lower performance levels than students with intellectual disabilities in special schools, and measures are needed to solve this problem. The SIS should be utilized in the fields of education.