A descriptive study to assess the problem of children with mental retardatioin among aged between 5-18 yrs in special schools at Dindigul District

A descriptive study to assess the problems of Mental Retardation among children in selected centers, Dindigul. Objectives: To assess the Problems of children with Mental Retardation using Meeting needs, Education, Social skills, Problems faced by parents. To find out the regression with selected demographic variables.(age,sex, Location, Socio economic Status, Type of marriage, mode of delivery, ) To findout the linear regression between the Meeting needs, Education, Social skill, Problems faced by parents, dependence with demographic variables like Type of marriage andMode of delivery. Hyopotheses: There will be a significant association between Meeting needs with demographic variable like age, sex, location, Socio economic Status, Type of marriage, mode of delivery. There will be a significant association between Educations with demographic variable like age, sex, location, Socio economic Status, Type of marriage, mode of delivery. There will be a significant association between Social Skills with demographic variable like age, sex, location,Socio economic Status, Type of marriage, mode of delivery. There will be a significant association between Problems faced by parents with demographic variable like age, sex, location, Socio economic Status, Type of marriage, mode of delivery. Research methods: It was a Quantitative Approach. This study aims to assess the problems of children with mental retardation among boys and girls between the age of 5-10 years at Akshara school, Amma Illam, Puthiya uthayam special school, Dindigul.The design adopted was Descriptive research design Conceptual frame work based on was adopted for fish born model. Total number of 60 samples of school children aged between 5-10 years, at Akshara school, Amma Illam, Puthiya uthayam special school, Dindigul, The instrument consisted of two sections. First section comprises of demographic variable, like age, gender, Location, socio economic status, Types of marriage, Mode of birth. Second section comprises to assess the problems of children with mental retardation. Result: Table 2 Shows that frequency distribution and percentage on Problems of mental retardation children aged between 5--18 yrs. In Meeting Needs 14(23.3%) have severe problems, 15(25%) have moderate problems and 31(51.7%) have mild problems. In Education, 15(25%) have severe problems, and 29(48.3%) have moderate problems, and 16(26.7%) have mild problems. In Social skill, 14(23.3%) have severe problems, 31(51.7%) have problems, 15(25%)have mild problems. In Problems faced by parents, 12(20%) have severe problems,33(55%) have problems, 15(25%) have mild problem Conculsion: Shows that association between Socio economic status and Level of Mental Retardation. Regarding Meeting Needs.there is no association between Socio economic status and Meeting Needs Regarding Education, there is no association between Socio economic status and Education. Regarding Social skill, there is no association between Socio economic status and Social skill. Regarding problems faced by parents, there is no association between Socio economic status and Problems faced by parents