READINESS OF PROGRAM TEACHERS TOWARDS THE USE OF MULTIMEDIA TEACHING AIDS IN LEARNING AND SPEAKING OF AUTISTIC STUDENTS

Abstract

This study aims to identify the readiness of teachers of Special Education which is determined by knowledge, skills, and attitudes toward the use of multimedia teaching aids in the learning of autistic students. This study is a survey that uses a questionnaire as the research instrument. This study was conducted on 45 teachers of autism students in primary schools of Hulu Langat, Selangor who were purposively selected. The analysis of research findings is carried out descriptively and inferentially by using The Statistical Packages for the Social Sciences version 27 (SPSS 27) software. Descriptive analysis in the form of frequency, percentage, mean score, and standard deviation to identify the level of knowledge, skills, and teachers' attitudes toward the use of multimedia teaching aids. While the inferential analysis by Pearson's correlation is used to identify the relationship between each variable (knowledge, skills, and teacher attitudes). The findings show that the level of teacher knowledge (mean = 3.08), and attitude (mean = 3.19) towards the use of multimedia teaching aid is at a high level. While the skills are at a moderate level (mean = 2.80). The Pearson Correlation shows a significant relationship between knowledge and skills (r = 0.833, p < 0.00), a significant relationship between knowledge and teacher attitudes (r = 0.673, p < 0.00) and they were also a significant relationship between skills and teacher attitudes (r = 0.556, p < 0.01).