Social skills among children with intellectual disability those belong to nuclear family verses joint family

Abstract

In this world, each child is unique. The presence of intellectual disabilities among children shakes the family to its foundations. Intellectual disabilities have been viewed as incapable and incompetent in their capacity for social behavior, self care and decision making. In India Family member particularly parent’s main burden is caring for such children. The present study was aimed to assess the social skill among children with intellectual disability and to correlate the Social skills among children with intellectual disability with those who are belong to nuclear family and joint family. A total of 38 parents was interviewed and evaluated separately from different regions of Mumbai and Navi Mumbai. The study reveals that 2.63 % children have good social skills, 18.42 % of them have satisfactory social skills, majority 55.26 % have poor social skills and remaining 23.68 % have very poor social skills which need considerable improvement. In result both equality and inequality variances indicate that there is significant evidence to reject the null hypothesis. Since the value in both the cases are less than 0.05 level of significance, therefore It can be concluded that children with intellectual disability belonging to joint family have higher social skills than compare to nuclear family.