Strategi Optimalisasi Potensi Siswa Berkebutuhan Khusus Melalui Program Pembelajaran Individual
Ability, problems, and needs that owned by children with special needs are very heterogeneous. These are the result of the diversity of the specificity and characteristics possessed by each of the individual with special needs. Those heterogeniety in turn have implications for the educational services needed to accommodate such diversity. So far, the government and the community has been organizing educational services for individuals with special needs either in the form of special education service or inclusive education. However, there are still some obstacles, one of which related to instructional strategies that applied. Learning process that has been applied, both in special schools and inclusive schools, it is less able to accommodate the learning needs of children with special needs. The curriculum is felt tends to be more traditional, the learning process is based solely on achieving the objectives of the curriculum, and less able to touch the basic needs of those children. Therefore, in order to develop the potential ability of children with special needs in a more optimal, it is required the development of learning strategy that emphasizes the distinctiveness of individual learning process. This paper tries to propose one of the learning strategies that enable to accommodate the basic learning needs of children with special needs to develop her potential ability, namely individualized educational program.