Volume : 7, Issue : 3, March - 2018

PARENTAL CARE OF SECONDARY LEVEL DISABLED STUDENTS

N. Gomathi Narayani, Dr. R. Selvaraju

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:&#10;justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:&#10;normal"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;&#10;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;color:black;letter-spacing:-.05pt;&#10;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">This pape</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:&#10;normal"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;&#10;color:black;letter-spacing:-.05pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">r attempts to find the parental care of secondary level disabled students. </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;&#10;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">Simple random sampling technique w</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">as used, to draw a sample of 350 disabled students from special schools of</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;&#10;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;"> Tirunelveli</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;"> and Kanyakumari</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;&#10;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;"> District</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">s</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;&#10;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;"> in Tamil Nadu. </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">The self made parental care scale</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;&#10;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi"> developed by and Selvaraju (2018) </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:&#10;normal"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">has been used to access the parental care of disabled students</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;&#10;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;&#10;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi"> and it has seven dimensions (</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;&#10;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">Educational Level of Parents, Parents Care on Getting Family Support, Parents Economic Status, Parents Occupational Problems, Parents and Society, Parents and Schools, Parents Educational Support).</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;&#10;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;"> <span style="color:black;letter-spacing:-.05pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">The findings reveal that </span></span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">the male disabled students and urban schools disabled students have got better parental care</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&#10;&quot;Times New Roman&quot;"> than their counter parts.<b><span style="color:black;&#10;letter-spacing:-.05pt"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></i></p>