A STUDY ON LEVEL OF AWARENESS ON ETIOLOGY OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY AMONG PARENTS OF CHILDREN WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY

In the present study the researcher has tried to explore the level of awareness regarding etiological factor of intellectual disability among parents having children with intellectual. The objective of this study was to assess the level of awareness among parents related to medical and etiological factors of intellectual disability. The sample of the study was 60 parents. The researcher used a self developed tool. The tool comprises of 30 items intellectual disabilities and its etiological factors, further it has medical cum genetic causes or environmental factor as two domains. The obtained t value was 1.20 & 2.02 respectively in both the medical cum genetic and environmental factors and the significant difference was .233 & .048 respectively. In addition to it item wise analysis was also prepared. The findings indicated that level of awareness does not vary with the gender of parents. The level of awareness has also does not have significance effect with respect to the socio economic status of the parents. Meanwhile, in the different items it can be said that parents have significance level of awareness whereas in few areas they need more awareness such as transferability of Intellectual disability, phenlketonuria.