The Role of Social Organization on Children Down Syndrome Admission in Society

Nanik Handayani, Joharotul Jamilah

2018

Abstract

This study examines the role of social organizations in the acceptance of children with Down Syndrome in the society, casestudy: at Rumah Ceria Anak Down Syndrome South Jakarta. This research aims to analyze how the role of POTADS organization in encouraging society to accept the down syndrome children in the community. This study uses a qualitative approach with observation and direct interview. The theoretical framework that the researcher uses is the social exchange theory by Peter M Blau. From this results, the programs, norms, and values can overcome the case of accepting down syndrome children in the family and society in POTADS organization. POTADS, plays an important role to give benefits to parents like new friends and family who feel the same way; making parents no longer feel alone, getting information about down syndrome children, getting support from other parents, mutually reinforcing, getting love and affection, and getting appreciation of what their down syndrome children do. It also makes parents slowly accept the presence of their children. Although this admission case has not been entirely carried out well, POTADS will continue to try to educate the public about Down syndrome children so that they canbe accepted in the family and community.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Handayani N. and Jamilah J. (2018). The Role of Social Organization on Children Down Syndrome Admission in Society.In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI, ISBN 978-989-758-458-9, pages 1730-1736. DOI: 10.5220/0009934317301736

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icri18,
author={Nanik Handayani and Joharotul Jamilah},
title={The Role of Social Organization on Children Down Syndrome Admission in Society},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,},
year={2018},
pages={1730-1736},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009934317301736},
isbn={978-989-758-458-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,
TI - The Role of Social Organization on Children Down Syndrome Admission in Society
SN - 978-989-758-458-9
AU - Handayani N.
AU - Jamilah J.
PY - 2018
SP - 1730
EP - 1736
DO - 10.5220/0009934317301736