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This study examines the teacher's efforts in fostering learning motivation in students with disabilities at SLB Samudra Terra Athena. This research uses a qualitative approach with descriptive methods, with data collection techniques through interviews, observation, and documentation during the research. The results showed that the strategies used by teachers in fostering learning motivation of students with intellectual disabilities include an individualized approach, the use of customized learning media, providing positive reinforcement, and building emotional closeness with students. These strategies are proven to increase students' engagement and interest in learning. This finding confirms the importance of teacher creativity in creating personalized and empathic learning approaches in special education.

Not all humans have self confidence. Something that can make someone has less confidence is their disability. The aim of this research is to know an overview of the special needs students’ self confidence development in SMA “X” Gresik Regency. This research used qualitative research method, with subjects: student with autism, slow learner, and light mentally disabled. Data collectives method that used are observation, interview, and documentation. Analysis data method used Miles and Huberman Model. This research used triangulation of technique and sources for checking data credibility. This research shows that student with autism can do activities by himself, believe with what he does, responsible, realized and accepted his imperfection, knows reason and effect behind his action, can build interaction with others, adaptation with environment, and tolerance with others. Student with slow learner can do activities and make decision by himself, responsible, realized and accepted his imperfection, knows reason and effect behind his action, adaptation with environment, and tolerance with others. In the other hand, students with light mentally disabled can not approach directly, need more time to approach them. The closest person have important role for special needs students’ self confidence development, like family, special needs teachers, and classmates.

Basically, God created His creatures perfectly. On the other hand, it turns out that God also created humans who do not have five senses, or incomplete body functions, such as the blind, deaf, physically disabled, even mentally disabled so that they have limitations in carrying out daily activities and are often considered different from others. A person who has physical or mental limitations due to illness or injury is called a disability. Being a person with a disability not only affects the person themselves, but often their families, especially their parents. The purpose of this study was to determine the application of pastoral care for parents who have children with disabilities. This study uses a qualitative descriptive method. The population and sample of this study were parents, namely the father and mother of a child with disabilities in Pamalian village, Sorkam sub-district, Central Tapanuli district. In an effort to provide pastoral counseling assistance with a Client Centered approach to parents who have children with disabilities, there are several approaches taken by the companion, namely, listening, reflecting, explaining, and being fully present. From the research results, pastoral counseling with a client-centered approach can help parents who have children with disabilities understand that what happened to their child is not a mistake or punishment due to sin so that parents can accept their child's condition.

This Community Service Activity (PKM) seeks to solve complex problems faced by society or certain communities within the scope of society. Motor development is the development of elements of development and control of body movements. Motor development develops with the maturity of nerves and muscles. Motor development is also a movement that uses fine muscles that coordinate with the brain in doing something through activities such as in children playing. The influence of playing on children's development, one of which is playing which can affect the improvement of reasoning and playing their existence in the peer environment and forming reasoning and playing their existence in the peer environment and forming the imagination of children's physical development, playing can be used as therapy. One form of therapy through play is by providing stimulation or stimulation to children so that children can grow and develop optimally. Children in orphanages for the mentally disabled are children who need special attention from other people or the community, so that their growth period can run like other children in their time. In this PKM activity, the PKM team provides education in the form of direct demonstrations and interacts directly with children at the Tomohon Mentally Disabled Orphanage, to stimulate children's motoric stimuli. This PKM activity has outputs in the form of reports and article publications so that they can be accessed by everyone who needs literature in the form of related articles.

Mental retardation is an intellectual disorder that is generally characterized by mental abilities or intelligence that feels below average. Self-care is indispensable for children with disabilities who find it challenging to carry out activities. The purpose of this study is to analyze the relationship of family support to the independence of self-care for mentally disabled children in SLB Negeri Subang. This study is a type of quantitative correlation research design that uses cross-sectional analysis. The sample in this study was 60 respondents from parents of mentally disabled children with purposive sampling techniques. Data collection used family support and self-care independence questionnaires and data analysis using the Chi-Square test. The study results showed that most respondents had the criteria of low-income family support (68.3%) and most self-care independence (65.0%). In addition, the results of the Chi-Square statistical test show p=0.000 < 0.05. The conclusion is that there is a relationship between family support and the independence of self-care for mentally disabled children in SLB Negeri Subang. So it is hoped that families can provide and increase good support for children with mental retardation by providing informational, emotional, judgmental, and instrumental support.      

This article was created to provide information about the right attitude and should be taken by the community when interacting with Persons with Special Needs. With so many types of people with special needs in society, such as the blind, deaf, mentally retarded, quadriplegic, and disabled, the treatment that can be done and provided by the general public should also be carried out differently by adjusting the constraints and needs needed by those with special n (Rosmawati, 2019) (Alim, 2019; Rahayu & Marheni, 2020; Suprapmanto, Nuralifa, Albela, & dkk, 2022; Purba, 2016; Dewi, 2019)eeds. As one of them is the CSOM technique which can be a guide not only for blind people, but also for the wider community when interacting with someone who has visual impairments. The adoption of this topic itself is based ons the experience that researchers have and experience when they are confused about what to behave, whether the person with special needs needs assistance, and if they do need assistance, what kind of assistance and how should be given when meeting with persons with special needs in public place. The research method used in this research itself is a quantitative survei method involving respondents to further strengthen the research that waswas made. The results of the research show that there are many things that can be found and done as an effort to increase the confidence of the general public to interact with Persons with Special Needs in their daily activities. The hope is that this research can dispel doubts that may arise and be experienced when we are going to help or interact with persons with special needs in the future in community activities and can provide information about what to do when interacting with persons with special needs.

This study applies the application of learning to read the Koran for mentally retarded children in Class III SLB Insan Mulia Payakumbuh. The introduction explains the importance of education in developing children's potential, as well as the role of education in educating the nation's life and creating a quality generation. This study uses a qualitative descriptive approach, with data obtained through observation, interviews and documentation. The results showed that the preparation for the implementation of learning included making learning tools, mastering the material, and preparing media and a conducive environment. Implementation of learning includes conditioning students, praying together, doing apperception, and conveying learning objectives. Supporting factors include the government's good role and community response, while inhibiting factors include a shortage of teachers and adequate facilities. In conclusion, the application of learning to read the Koran for mentally retarded children at SLB Insan Mulia Payakumbuh needs to be properly prepared, paying attention to preparation, implementation, as well as supporting and inhibiting factors that can influence the success of the learning process. It is hoped that the results of this research can contribute to improving the quality of learning for mentally retarded children in SLB.

This article aims to describe getting to know children with special needs and their classification. This research uses a qualitative descriptive research method. Data collection techniques include: observation, interviews, and documentation. The research subjects or informants are parents, the community, class teachers/homeroom teachers and special guidance teachers. The results of the research show that: children with special needs are children who experience significant abnormalities or deviations (physical, mental, intellectual, social and emotional) in the process of their growth and development compared to other children of the same age and therefore require special education services. Children with special needs have different characteristics from one another. The characteristics and obstacles they have, ABK require special forms of education services that are tailored to their abilities and potential. The classification of children with special needs is divided into several groups, including: blind, mentally retarded, deaf, physically disabled, hearing impaired, learning difficulties, cerebral palsy, autism, gifted children, rett's disorder, Asperger's, slow learners, and ADHD.

Background: Children with disabilities, especially mentally retarded, have difficulty distinguishing between appropriate and inappropriate touches, which will make it difficult for disabled children to identify actions that lead to sexual harassment directed at them. Intellectual disability or mental disability is a condition where a person's intelligence development experiences obstacles so that they do not reach the optimal stage of development. Digital pop up books are very easy to understand in the learning process and are an effective medium in providing sexual education for mentally retarded children. Purpose: The aim of this community service is to increase awareness of mentally retarded teenagers about preventing sexual violence through digital pop up book media. Method: The stages include planning and preparation, implementation of service activities with workshops, Popi Dita fungame, barcode story corner hut and evaluation. The activity was held on Wednesday 7 June 2023 at SLB Samudra Lavender Bangkalan. Measuring the success of this digital pop up book media uses a pre-test and post-test with a questionnaire containing 16 short questions. Result: The results showed an increase in student knowledge scores from 4.95 to 7.36. The paired t-test obtained a p- value of 0.019 which shows that sexual violence prevention interventions can increase the knowledge or awareness of mentally retarded children regarding the prevention of sexual violence.    Conclusion: This activity was successfully carried out with high participation and enthusiasm from students in taking part in this activity. It is hoped that this pop up book can be a useful educational tool for schools in an effort to minimize the number of victims of sexual violence.