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great extent on spatial ability. Mobility skills vary greatly among people with visual impairment. A critical variable appears to be
motivation, and some authorities have noted that those who have more residual vision and those who become frustrated by their
loss of vision and less motivated to acquire mobility skills. d. Academic Achievement.
The academic achievement of students who are blind with sighted students must be interpreted cautiously because the two
groups must be tested under different conditions. Compared with student who are hearing impaired is not as adversely affected.
e. Social Adjustment. An important point to keep in mind is that even though
people with visual impairment differ from the sighted in how they interact socially, this does not mean that they are socially
maladjusted. It does mean, however, that initial interactions between sighted and those without sight may be strained.
Another important point is that it should not only be up those who are visually impaired to change their ways of interacting
socially.
J. The Education for Students with Visual Impairment
Tuttle 1986:239 states that the purpose of education is to equip children and youth with life competencies that enable them to love, to
work, and to play within the context of an acceptable system of values. The education model for handicapped children especially visual
impairment is inclusive which the purpose is to optimize children’s potential.
Based on Sapon-Shevin as quoted by Subagya 2006:3 there are profile of education in inclusive school, namely:
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1. Inclusive education means create and keep the community of class, accept and appropriate the difference.
2. Teaching in heterogenic class needs change of curriculum implementation essentially. The class form changes from
competitive to collaborative and cooperative. 3. Inclusive education means prepare and support the teacher to teach
interactively. 4. Inclusive education means giving support to teacher and class
constantly and removing the obstacle related with profession isolation. The important of inclusive education is the form of
teaching in team, collaborative, and consultative. For example are the cooperative between teacher and specialist therapist,
rehabilitation, expert and etc 5. Inclusive education means education that involves the parents of
students.
K. The Concept of Extraordinary School SLB.
Education is one important thing for humans. Form of education may be academic or non academic. The Government has taken various
ways to improve the quality of education in Indonesia this beloved. Start of Program Fair compulsory education Nine Years to Twelve
Years Fair. Distribution of scholarships at home and abroad were included in one of the government program. The existence of the Law
on Education provides a thick line that education should be implemented uniformly and without exception. Public schools, private
schools, even special schools SLB, a formal place to get about SLB, will not escape from the existence of exceptional children ABK. ABK
is the children who have growth charts that differ from normal children. The graph can rise and fall. There are several categories including
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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.
