Title: The Effects of Self-Esteem Training Program on Improvement of Self-Esteem and Speaking Abilities of Students with Physical Disabilities
Abstract: Students with disabilities have low self-esteem and lack the ability to speak confidently because of their physical impairment and failure experiences. Therefore, in this research, the self-esteem training program was developed and applied to students with physical disabilities, and the effects of self-esteem and speaking ability of physically disabled students were examined.
The subjects of this study were 20 students from D special-education school in Daegu Metropolitan City. Experimental design methods applied for the experiment of this study are experimental design of pre- and post-test control group. After applying the self-esteem improvement program to the experimental group and not applying it to the control group, pre- and post-test were done to both the experimental group and the control group to compare the experimental treatment results.
The results of this study were as follows: First, the students of the experimental group who performed the self-esteem training program showed a positive improvement in general self-esteem, social self-esteem, family self-esteem and school self-esteem compared to the control group.
Second, the experimental group participating in the self-esteem training program improved speaking ability in four areas: content selection, content organization, expression and delivery, attitude.
Based on the above conclusions, it is suggested that the self-esteem training program for the students with disabilities should be developed in accordance with the characteristics of the learner, so that long-term training should be done using the creative experiential activity time.
Publication Year: 2019
Publication Date: 2019-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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