Hubungan Antara Persepsi Orangtua Mengenai Anak Tunagrahita Dengan Penerimaan Orangtua Terhadap Anak Tunagrahita di Sekolah Luar Biasa Pelita Hati dan Mulia Panam

Abstract

Parents’ problem who has child with mental retardation have such as social stigma, financial, and others factor so many parents perception about mental retardation child, and parents are getting hard to accept their child. That’s why it is necessary to do this research the relation between parents with mental retardation child acceptance. The aim of this research is to see the relation between the perception and acceptation and give the description to the parents whose mental retardation child is not really bad. The data collection is used Likert scale and fervent by interview. The analyzing data is gotten that there is a the relationship between Parents’ perception and acceptation to mental retardation child, that parents give positive perception to mental retardation child in order that parents can receive mental retardation child well. The result of this research is relationship between parents’ perception and acceptation to mental retardation child is 37%.