A Comparative Study on the Opinion of the Parents of Adolescents with Developmental Disability on Gender Education

Abstract

The present study is an comparative study to find out the opinion of the parents of adolescents with Mild Intellectual Disabilities and Parents of adolescents with Autism for imparting Gender Education.  A total no. of 60 parents have been selected through a non-probability purposive procedure. A self-made tool in the form of questionnaire was used to generate the data. The result revealed that there is no significant difference   in   the opinion of the parents of both the groups on   the variables such as: “Content” “Importance” and “Modes” of  imparting Gender Education to  Adolescents with Intellectual Disability and Adolescents with Autism along with this no significant difference has been seen in the opinion of the male  parents  and  female parents  of  Adolescents  with Developmental  Disabilities  regarding  Gender Education. The result of this study strongly recommends the need of Gender Education regarding personal safety for children with developmental disabilities and their families.