Identifying Impact of Gross Motor Activities on Mentally Retarded Children
Journal Title: International Journal of Educational Science and Research (IJESR) - Year 2019, Vol 9, Issue 3
Abstract
About 15 percent of the world's population -- some 785 million people -- have a significant physical or mental disability, that include about 5 percent of children, according to a new report prepared jointly by the World Health Organization and the World Bank. The number of disabled persons in the whole world is 1,050,000,000, in India it is 2, 68, 10, 557 and in Gujarat it is 1092302, which includes the 66393 persons who are mentally retarded. This research paper aims at identifying the impact of Gross Motor Activities on mentally retarded children. 30 mentally retarded children were considered for the study from Navsarjan Mand Buddhi School, Valsad. Educational toys used for Gross Motor Activities were considered for training purpose. Training was given to 30 mentally retarded children for the duration of one year. Pre-training and post training data was collected for analysis and Annova one way was applied for statistical analysis. Results indicate that there were significant impacts of education by toys under gross motor activities on mentally retarded students of school.
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Dhimen Jani, Rashmi Desai
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