Abstract
This study evaluated the effectiveness of a structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding home care of intellectually disabled children among caregivers in a selected special school, Ernakulam district, Kerala. All over the world 83 million people are intellectually disabled. In India, 5 out of 1000 children are intellectually disabled. The researcher used a quantitative approach with quasi experimental one group pre test post test design was done on 40 caregivers who were selected by simple random sampling. The tool used in the present study was a self administered, structured knowledge assessment questionnaire. The result showed that there was statistically significant increase in knowledge score obtained by subjects regarding homecare of intellectually disabled children, in all the six dimensions after exposure to structured teaching programme. There is no significant association between the pre-test knowledge of caregivers and their selected demographic variables and the child variables.
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