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The Effect of Parent and Sibling Education Program on Attitudes and Behaviours towards Children with Disabilities

Bu araştırma Aile Eğitim Programı (AEP) ve Kardeş Eğitim Programı nın (KEP) 10-14 yaş aralığındaki normal kardeşlerin engelli kardeşine yönelik tutum ve davranışlarına etkisini incelemek amacıylayapılmıştır. Araştırma çok denekli-çok faktörlü deneysel desen kullanılarak öntest-sontest kontrol grupludesen üzerinde yürütülmüştür. Çalışma grubunu, Konya merkez ilçelerinde zihin engelli kardeşi bulunan10-14 yaş aralığındaki 30 ilköğretim okulu öğrencisi ile 10 ebeveyn oluşturmuştur. Veri toplama aracıolarak normal çocuklar için; Özürlü Kardeşe Yönelik Tutum Ölçeği ve Schaff er Kardeş Davranışı Değerlendirme Ölçeği-Kardeş Formu kullanılırken anneler için Schaff er Kardeş Davranışı DeğerlendirmeÖlçeği-Anne Formu kullanılmıştır. Mann Whitney U-Testi, Kruskal Wallis Testi (H testi) ve Wilcoxonİşaretli Sıralar Testinden yararlanılmıştır. Sonuçlara göre deney gruplarındaki kardeşlerin tutum ve davranışlarında artış olmuştur. Çocuklar ve ebeveynler, AEPte yer alan normal çocukların engelli kardeşlerine yönelik genel davranış düzeylerini benzer şekilde değerlendirmektedirler.

Aile ve Kardeş Eğitimi Programı nın Engelli Çocuğa Yönelik Tutum ve Davranışlara Etkisi

This research was carried out in order to examine the effect of The Parent Education Program(PEP) and The Sibling Education Program (SEP) which is given to siblings without disabilities and theirparents on the attitudes and behaviours of 10-14 year old siblings without disabilities towards theirsiblings with disabilities. The Multi subject-multi factor experimental pattern, which is one of experimen- tal models, was applied in this research. The pre-test post-test control group pattern was conducted in thiscontext. The study group consisted of 30 primary school students (experiment-1, experiment-2, and ex- periment 3) from the central counties of Konya who were 10-14 years old and had a sibling with disabi- lities and 10 parents (parents of children in experiment-2). The data collecting tools for normal childrenwere: The Attitude towards Disabled Sibling Scale , The Schaff er Sibling Behaviour Rating Scale- Sibling Form , and data about mothers was collected through, The Schaff er Sibling Behaviour RatingScale-Mother Form . Mann Whitney U-Test, Kruskal Wallis Test (H test) and Wilcoxon Signed RanksTest were used to determine. According to the result, the siblings in the experimental groups display ahigh increase at their attitudes and behaviours. Children and parents evaluate the general behaviour levelsof typically developing children participating in PEP in a similar way.

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