Results of using tactile activity calendar to reduce prompting on toilet behavior of a child with deafblindness

Abstract

This research aimed to study the effect of using tactile activity calendar to reduce prompting of going to toilet behavior of a child with congenital deafblindness. Case study was a 12 year old girl with congenital deafblindness, diagnosed by physician studied in multi-level class 41 at the School in Chiang Mai province. Purposive selected done by her problems of waiting for prompts from teachers and other people in performing various activities in daily life. The 3 research instruments were 1) Assessment form for selecting tactile symbol cards that show the meaning of going to the toilet, 2) Individualized Teaching Plan (IIP) on using the toilet, using tactile symbols in the form of a 10-step toilet activity calendar, 3) A teacher behavior and a case study record form to study the use of a tactile toilet activity calendar. Data analysis was done with frequency, percentage mode and content analysis. The research results were found as follows; 1. The tactile symbol cards created in 3-D form which was selected by a case study based on the meaning of entry toilet 10 steps to be used as 10- step sequence of activity calendar : 1) Ceramic tile symbol card means go to the bathroom 2) Door latch symbol card means open-close the door 3 ) Toilet symbol card means go to the toilet 4) Underpants symbol card means take off your pants 5) Toilet symbol card means sit on the toilet 6) Handrail symbol card means getting up 7) Underwear symbol card means wearing pants 8) Water dispenser symbol card means flushing water 9) Door latch symbol card means open the door 10) The image of a faucet with a long stem symbol card means hand washing. 2. A case study passed the criteria of 4 level and in mode score 4 of 1-3 teaching individual teaching plans :1) could tell the meaning of tactile symbol cards 2) place the tactile symbol in sequence of activity calendar in all 10 steps 3) using the tactile activity calendar as media to use toilet correctly