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Tunagrahita ABK, Tunawicara, Deaf, Tunalaras, Blind, quadriplegic, Children learning difficulties, and children who are too smart
Special education as contained in Regulation No.72 year 1991 was a special education that is used for students who bear the physical or
mental defect. Exceptional education aims to equip students with special needs to be able to play an active role in society.
the exceptional education aims to help learners who bear the physical or mental abnormalities to be able to develop the attitudes knowledge and
skills as a personal and community members in their relationship with timbale behind social environment, culture and natural surroundings as
well as to develop skills in the working world knows to follow further education.www.ditplb.or.idcetak20081003.
In the implementation of special education. Directorate of exceptional education coaching education classifies into five areas,
namely SLB A, SLB B, SLB C,SLB D and SLB E. In other hand, SLB is “special” school built to give education for
exceptional children to give nine year education service in basic education level. There are some SLB in Indonesia, and each SLB is for
different exceptional children. SLB A is for children with visual impairment, SLB B is for children with hearing impairment, SLB C is
for children mental retardation, SLB D is for children with orthopedically handicapped and SLB E is for children for delinquency
children or maladjustment Sapariadi, 1982:10.
L. The Concept of SLB A YAAT KLATEN.
SLB is “special” school built to give education for exceptional children to give nine year education service in basic education level. It is
located at Angsana Trunuh street, Klaten Selatan . SLB A YAAT is one of the schools in Klaten which has good education for visual
impairment. This school is different from other schools. This school is known by its superiority in English. Even though it is small schools but
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there are many facilities that support its English language learning or children with visual impairment such as daisy player, Braille library,
printing Braille books, software Jaws, software open book. Then, there are three level of education, such as, Kindergarten, Elementary School
and Junior High School.
CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHDOLOGY
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In Oxford Dictionary, research is careful research or investigation, especially in order to discover new facts or information. Cholid Narbuko 2003:1
defines research as” Kegiatan untuk mencari, mencatat, merumuskan, dan menganalisa sampai menyusun laporannya”. It is more than to discover but to
note, formulate, and analyze facts or information. Futher, David H. Penny in Cholid Narbuko, 2003: 1 states “ Penelitian adalah pemikiran yang sistematis
mengenai berbagai jenis masalah yang pemecahannya memerlukan pengumpulan dan penafsiran fakta-fakta.
Based on the definitions above, it can be concluded that research is an active, diligent and systematic process of inquiry in order to discover, interpret or
revise facts, events, behaviors, or theories. Based on its definitions, there are some importants points of research, 1 It is a research of an object; 2 The method is
systematic and objective; 3 the objectives are to get a better understanding upon that object and to develop the theory of that object.
A research has methodology. Methodology is used as the method to do an inquiry. Futher, it can be said that metholodology is the way someone uses to
conduct a research. Cholid Narbuko2003:1 states “ Metodologi penelitian
adalah suatu cabang ilmu pengetahuan yang membicarakan atau mempersoalkan menegenai cara-cara melaksanakan penelitian yaitu meliputi kegiatan mencatat,
merumuskan, menganalisa sampai menyusun laporannya berdasarkan fakta-fakta atau gejala gejala secara ilmiah”.
Based on the definitions above, it can be concluded that research methodology is a research which talks about the way used in the research.
In this research, the researcher uses some aspect of the methodology. Those aspects are the selection of the time and the place of the research, the form
of the research, the research method, the source of data, the technique of collecting data, the validity of the data and the analyze of data.
A. The Form of the Research.
