An Assessment of Self-Help Skills in Mentally Challenged Students

To Asses the Self- Help Skills in Mentally Challenged Students. Skilled deficiency is an inevitable and widespread problem in mentally challenged population. It's very important to asses their self help skills (i.e. adaptive behaviour) to know the magnitude of the burden they put on parents and society. Institutional based cross sectional study was earned out with 165 mentally challenged students of Nandanwan School, Nagpur from March -May 2005 Mentally challenged children were lagging behind in all areas like eating, dressing toileting, communication, locomotion, money matters (self direction) as their means in all age groups and in all areas were less. Means social quotient did not increase as per the chronological ages of children. Mentally challenged children faced difficulties m activities of daily living. As the age of children increased their mean social ages increased but their mean social quotient didn't increase with their age hence there is need of special education and training.