Children Who Need Mental Support: A Teacher’s Communication Strategy

Abstract

The objectives of this study were as follows: 1) to determine the teacher's communication strategy in the teaching and learning process of mentally retarded children in SLB 01 Bengkulu City, and 2) to apply effective multimodal learning in the communication of teachers and mentally retarded children in the teaching and learning process. Field research with a descriptive approach is being conducted. According to the study's findings, the most common form of communication between teachers and students is verbal communication, which occurs both inside and outside the classroom during the teaching and learning process. This verbal communication can take the form of face-to-face conversations between teachers and students, or it can take the form of speaking in class learning. When we communicate, we not only send verbal messages but also nonverbal messages. In this study, the teacher uses both verbal and nonverbal communication during the teaching and learning process. The teacher uses simple verbal communication when teaching.