Pediatrics, Neonatology & Primary Care

Biography

Biography: Payal Maheshwari

Abstract

The research aimed at studying the level of socio-emotional skills in two groups of adolescents with SLD, one who played sports and the second group of adolescents who did not play sports. The study also aimed at finding out the differences in the socio emotional skills of the two groups of adolescents. The sample comprised of 120 adolescents with SLD (60 playing sports for at least 1hr/week and 60 not playing sports or less than half an hour in a week), in the age range of 12-15yrs of age residing in Mumbai, and having SLD as the primary disability. The socio-emotional skills assessment scale (Maheshwari, 2018) was used to gather the data on respective variable. The results revealed that majority of the adolescents with SLD (45) perceived themselves as having average level of socio-emotional skills while 22 rated themselves in the low level category. Further analysing the data for the two groups of adolescents, it was found that adolescent with SLD who were playing sports had average to high level of socio-emotional skills across the domains and within the sub-domains while, majority of the adolescents with SLD not playing sports rated their socioemotional skills level as average to low level. These differences were further confirmed by the T-test results, wherein strong significant difference was found between the socio-emotional skills of adolescents with SLD playing sports and not playing sports (t = 10.230, p=.000). The findings of the study clearly indicate the importance of sports in the life of adolescents with SLD. Opportunities should be provided in school and at home to the adolescents with SLD to participate in sports, which would help them to build and enhance their socio-emotional skills and further lead to positive beliefs about themselves and this will help them in in improving their learning skills too.