Improving Assertive Attitude Through Assertive Trainning Techniques for Deaf Student

摘要

The phenomenon of hearing impaired students who have a low assertive attitude which has an impact on the ability of the social interaction of hearing impairments in daily life. Assertiveness is very important to be applied in everyday life, especially in expressing feelings and opinions that are in accordance with the wishes and feelings of individuals. Lack of assertiveness will have an impact on lack of self-actualization, lack of stance, difficulty in making their own decisions and tend to be obedient to what others command without heeding their own feelings. The purpose of this study is to increase assertiveness with assertive training techniques to improve assertiveness in students with hearing impairment. the development of assertiveness can be seen from how far individuals are able to actualize what they want, express their personal opinions, have a position and get prosperity for what is their decision. The type of research used is descriptive qualitative research. The research subjects were deaf disabled students at SMALB B SLB Negeri 1 Bantul Data collection used questionnaires, documentation and interviews. Data collection techniques used were interactive miles and hubberman analysis. The results of this study indicate that the factual conditions of deaf disability assertiveness after following the Assertive Training process experienced an increase marked by deaf disabled students able to respect the rights of themselves and others, dare to express opinions in public, during learning and in association, honest with oneself and others, able to determine attitudes by paying attention to the situation and conditions around, able to use body language in accordance with the feelings that are owned. Higher education is expected to help students to master social skills and to adapt to the surrounding environment. Students with special needs have the same rights to get treatment and interact with others. This study aims to determine whether cooperative learning method could improve social skills for students with special needs. This study used Quasi Experiment approach with One Group Pre and Posttest Design. This study use purposive sampling technique to choose relevant subject for the research. The subjects of this study were 8 students with special needs. The results of statistical calculation between the results of pretest and posttest obtained the value of F = 1.275 shows significant influence on social skills between before and after treatment in the form of cooperative learning were given. Cooperative learning method can improve social skills of students with special needs at Special Needs Education Program of Lambung Mangkurat University, Banjarmasin.