The effect of the electric cube assistive technology device on the special needs children’s basic movements

Abstract

Inclusive education in physical education is a hot topic today. Educators and researchers are competing to conduct research and development in order to improve the quality of physical education learning for children with special needs. One form of support for them is by providing assistive technology that can stimulate and help them carry out physical activities.The objective of this study is to discover the effectiveness of electric cube on the children with special needs’ basic movement. This research is to develop technology-based tools to provide knowledge and skills to adaptive physical education teachers who teach students with disabilities. This study uses experimental research approach. The research design in this study is a randomized control group pretestposttest design. Using 10 children with mild mental disabilities as a control group and 10 children with mild mental disabilities in the experimental group. This research was conducted in the Malang city and Malang regency for 2 months with 24 times treatments. Based on the output table of "Independent Samples Test" it is revealed that the value of Sig. (2-tailed) is 0.026 <0.05, so as a basis for decision making in the independent samples t test, it can be seen that Ho is rejected and Ha is accepted. Therefore, it can be concluded that there is a significant difference in the basic movements final test results between the experimental group and the control group. The conclusion of this study, even though the results show that there is a significant difference, we still need to study further about special needs children considering that there are still few existing studies related to this topic.