Today, we live together by cooperating and interacting with other people.
However, adults with intellectual disabilities suffer from lots of difficulties in
adapting and living. They lack the communication skills required in the
interpersonal relationship and the skills required to learn the social behavior due to
limitations in the intellectual functions and the adaptive behavior, which
characterize them as they tend to avoid the situation or depend on the others
excessively without trusting their own ability when they face with the problematic
situation. In this respect, to form the social relationship in the adults with
intellectual disabilities, the cooperative art program was developed and applied.
The results of this study are as follows.
First, in the results of analyzing the sociality and the self-efficacy tests, the
cooperative art program made the statistically significant changes in all sublevel
areas of the sociality and the self-efficacy in the persons with intellectual
disabilities.
Second, in the results of analyzing the response and the behavior of the
persons with intellectual disabilities through the observation log and the class
activity sheet, the cooperative art program based on the LT cooperative learning
model formed the cooperative behavior and the ability of the persons with
intellectual disabilities.
Through these results, this program can be considered as effective to improve
the sociality and the self-efficacy of the persons with intellectual disabilities.
Accordingly, this study suggests that in order for them to perform diverse roles as the independent agent in the society, the constant education considering their
diverse characteristics and environmental factors should be performed together in
the aspect of lifelong education.