Parents' Opinions Concerning in Decision Marking to Apply Special Needed Children for Early Intervention Service at the Central Special Education Center, Bangkok
Abstract:
The purposes of this research were 1) to study parents' opinions influencing in decision making to apply their Special Needed children for early intervention service at The Central Special Education Center, Bangkok. 2) to compare parents' opinions towards the factors affecting their decisions to apply their Special Needed children for early intervention service classified by sex, education level, occupation, in come fee and Intervention Service center The sampling group of 175 parents with their Special Needs children were selected for this research. The tool used for data collection was a 5 level rating scale questionnaire with its reliability value of 0.97. The statistics used for data analysis included frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, t - test, One - way ANOVA and comparison of each pair of factors. The findings were as follows: 1) Factors influencing parents' decision in overall and each aspects were at high level 2) The result of the comparison of parents' opinions classified by sex, education level, occupation, in come fee and Intervention Service center found that parents who were different in occupations and Intervention Service center showed significantly different decision on academic, staff, cost fee, facilities, services, Special Needs Education center's reputation and school building and environment at the statistical significant level of 0.05. Other classifications were not different.