Attitudes of Respondents After Provided Health Education about
individuals with developmental stages of mental retardation, because social
support can improve the function of individual adaptive, self help, good
social skills, and improve health. giving optimal dukunganyang through person
center approach is a way to improve education, work, recreation, and the
environment for persons with mental retardation.
Forms of social support consistently given first and done long ago is giving
yudium salt. The fundamental reason for generally some parties give a statement
with mental retardation in the village due to lack yudium Patihan coral.
according to the results of research activities conducted by major
universities in Indonesia mentions that the soil and water conditions contained
in the region does not contain elements yudium altogether. various agricultural
products they produce are also poor in iodine.
Social support in the form of other materials are also given assistance or
renovation of residential development to the provision of home affection for
people with mental retardation. The aid obtained from a form of local authority
roles eastern Java. even some housing residents who renovated by the military.
as eligibility to settle despite getting help physically renovation but the
condition of the interior of the house in the casing affection sometimes far from
decent. Under these conditions because the family can not take care with the
mutual respect. various positive activities undertaken, especially for
persons with mental retardation to be part of the social legitimacy in the
village. social legitimacy is a form of behavior pattern corresponding to the
pattern of behavior of people in their environment. as a form of behavior that
is performed by persons with mental retardation although less fit like a
normal person, but open attitude Patihan coral rural communities that accept all
its conditions.
The behavior of adaptive function for persons with mental retardation to be
able to have an individuals ability to effectively be able to face all his need
for self that can be accepted by the social environment. assessment criteria
are helpful in explaining the ability of a person with mental retardation among
others related to the functional capability of self-reliance in meeting the needs of
daily life, personal responsibility with the ability to perform a task or job either
activities carried out in the family and when acted upon an obligation provided
by the Outside, as well as the ability to perform social communicative
interactions in society. such criteria as the basis of mental retardation how to
attack to get a decent place in the neighborhood.
Patterns of behavior that does not match the size of the normative environment
related to the difficulty to understand and interpret the norm, while other
behavioral anomaly associated with a
optimal lingkungnnya because mental mismatch between the
behavior limitations condition.
Various social support in society are also part of the opening sense of
community in the village of Coral Patihan in receiving citizens with mental
retardation. support given as a form of legality as citizens in the community.
persons with mental retardation is also a part of society that needs to get the
rights and obligations as individuals who live in rural communities Patihan coral.
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According to Davison 2006, one with people with mental retardation may have
a form of behavior that is friendly, but usually only able to communicate briefly
in a very concrete level. generally can do little activities independently and
often looked lethargic. persons with mental ratardasi able to do work that
does not require high skills, to always get a referral guidance. such as people
with mental dissertation is mesinah are also active in the activities organized by
the local government melalaui training centers along with village communities
of coral Patihan to conduct skills training for local residents in making
mats. The program is very helpful in increasing the creative power of the
local community and increase revenue to increase household income. in addition,
residents also involve people with mental retardation to participate actively
participate in these activities, so it can be interpreted that the local people are
very open to people with mental retardation.
Various aspects of the functioning of independence that formed the beginning
social values such as participation in various events are part of a sense of
community in accepting the opening of residents with mental retardation. The
support given as a form of legality as citizens in society.
Conclusion and suggestion
The advice given in this study include the provision of social support,
especially in the form of material assistance should be adjusted to the
needs and conditions of each persons with mental retardation, so that the
development of self-reliance capability can be awakened every individual and
the aid can be targeted to the needs of the community. Role of health workers
of family support in providing teaching more optimal
in improving the behaviors that will be taught are broken
down into small parts in sequence and basic routine that can foster personal
performance of providing health care. The quantity in human resources also
need to be increased in a bid assistance responsibility to be given to the
to people with mental retardation. provision of a learning activity in their
daily lives. the role of interaction of social relations within the family such as
communicating effectively with the immediate family and the community by
following religious activities can be a filter in negative behavior
Picture 1 : the activities of person with mental retardation
Provision of optimal support through a person approach the center with
assistance, both material and non- material as well as increased legal
identity as a society through the application of the rules of religious and
1395 Pattern intensive assistance in changing
peoples minds so that people receive medical care through the ministry of
health centers. Extraordinary School SLB as an educational institution to
monitor the condition of people with special needs such as persons with
mental retardation. SLB role can reach out and provide character education in
accordance with the level of mental retardation condition experienced by
people with evaluations involving the participation of family members,
especially the pattern of care provided by parents
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