Teaching Reading to Children Ages 7-8 Years to Early Light Tunagrahita and Their Difficulties Following the Inclusive Primary School

摘要

Teaching Reading to Children Ages 7-8 Years to Early Light Tunagrahita and Their Dificulties Following the Inclusive Primary School. This study aims to determine the difficulties faced by early childhood mental retardation in reading and to find out the cause of reading difficulties. Design or this planning research , is a case study using a qualitative approach. The subjects of this research were light mental retardation early childhood 7-8 years, amounting to 8 people. Data were collected using observations, using interview, and documentation. Data were analyzed with the case study design. Results of this study indicate that, the problem in reading lies in the difficulty in reading words, reading fluency, perception, concentration, attention, memory, motor skills and understanding. Reading difficulties in children light mental retardation is caused by two factors, namely: (1) Because of physical abnormalities include speech synthesizers, motor disorders. (2) Because of mental / psychological, include lack accuration of perception, less ability to concentrate, can not give any attention in many things at once , his less memory , and low intelligence. Keywords: Teaching reading, early childhood mental retardation, difficulty reading