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Details of the social development scores obtained among the selected HIV Infected children is projected in Table 6

TABLE 6

SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SCORES OBTAINED BY THE SELECTED CHILDREN

Age (years) Scores (6 – 10) Boys Girls 7-9 4 8 1 2 10-12 3 6 15 30 13-15 8 16 13 26 16-18 3 6 3 6 TOTAL 18 36 32 64

Scores on the rating scale: 1 – 5: Average, 6 – 10: Good, 11 – 15: Very Good (Sharma 2003) Mean scores obtained for social development by all the selected children was good it was about 6-10 for all the age group, this indicates that social development of the children for the aspects like taking turns in group play or situations and trying to share things working co-operatively with adults, work and play co-relatively with other children making all decisions and controlling ones behaviour was good.

Nutritional and micronutrient deficiencies play an important additive role in immune degradation and impaired development in children. Proper nutrition among HIV infected children is an essential component of an effective response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic in the world. Prevalence of growth failure is significantly greater than that expected in the general population. Inadequate weight gain and muscle wasting are common among HIV infected children along with delayed developmental milestones. For the millions of people suffering from HIV/ AIDS the fragile rampart between life and death is guarded by healthcare workers, physicians‘ psychologists‘ social workers and other primary care providers serve as the first resource and link to the information about the principal source of education for its prevention. Due to the complexities of the HIV/AIDS pandemic preventive and curative interventions call for good teamwork on part of the healthcare workers.

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A s i a n J o u r n a l o f

M u l t i d i m e n s i o n a l

R e s e a r c h

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COGNIZANCE LEVEL OF ICT AMONG CHILDREN WITH LEARNING

DISABILITIES IN CHENNAI

S. Santhi*; Dr. K.S.Pushpa**

*Research scholar,

**Associate professor & Professor, Department of Home Science,

Fatima College & Gandhigram Rural Institute, Tamil Nadu, INDIA.

______________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT

Technologies like Information and communication technologies (ICT) play a vital role in day-to- day‘s life especially for school students in terms of shaping their knowledge and skills. However, there is a paucity of research has focused on the cognizance (aspect of use and accessibility level) of ICT among young children who have Learning Disability (LD). Therefore, the main aim of this paper is to analyse the cognizance level of ICT on young children in academic and personal development. The study chooses the target population of 75 students of each 25 from normal schools, special schools, and school with remedial centre. The study completely relies on primary data collection method through open and closed ended questionnaire. After data collection, the data analysis was carried out by SPSS. The following tests was carried out include Kruskal-Wallis test and Chi-square test. Study findings show that all the three included types of children are familiar with IT gadgets. For internet access and smart learning, the children from normal schools and schools with remedial centers score the same whereas; it was low in the case of LD children in special schools. With respect to IT gadgets use, all the three groups of young children use games as the majority. Social networking and games did not show any significant difference among three categories, whereas, project and homework showed significant differences among groups in this study. Overall, the study concluded that there is no doubt the accessibility and use of ICT can have a beneficial influence on the education of children with LD.

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INTRODUCTION

Growing up with technologies like Information and communication technologies (ICT) exploring their role in day-to-day‘s lives of young children. The ICT term is generally utilised in educational practice, policy and research, replaces the earlier term Information Technology (IT) that covers computer and internet (Bolstad, 2004). Today‘s children are considered to be the first generation of digital age and moreover, they have strong cognizance level to acquire any new information. Over the past few decades, the changes in society prompt the students to get awareness and use the new technologies in ways which will permit them to manage this high competitive technological workplace. Majority of the researchers have agreed that computer based technology support the students functioning in classroom(Hasselbring & Glaser, 2000).It supports the children to enhance their cognizance level in professional learning and development and personal development include enhance strong communication between parents and other people in education setting. Some individuals understand huge advantages and accessibility of computer-based technologies may afford children with learning disabilities(LD)(Bray, Brown, & Green, 2004).

LD refers to a variety of disorders caused by difference in the brain that affects how information is received, processed or communicated(Jacob & Kuruvilla, 2016). They have trouble in processing sensory information because they see, hear and understand things differently. The introduction of ICT and use of the Internet have played a major part in shaping the knowledge and skills of these students. Assistive technology has introduced awareness for both educators and students and development of ICT-based platforms to enhance the learning outcomes of these students(Adam & Tatnall, 2004, 2007). However, there is not much evidence support this statement. Moreover, the usage level of IT among young children is also not clearly explained. Owing to the changing scenario and the large leap of IT in the field of education, the researcher made an effort to study the accessibility and usage level of IT among young children of LD. The reason for analyzing the accessibility and usage level of ICT is because of the researcher will get an idea of cognizance level from this effort.