PERCEPTIONS OF ELEMENTARY SPECIAL SCHOOL TEACHERS ON ICT BASED INSTRUCTIONAL MEDIA IN FACILITATING CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS IN LEARNING IN MAJALAYA DISCTRICT BANDUNG REGENCY PERSEPSI GURU SDLB TERHADAP MEDIA PEMBELAJARAN BERBASIS TEKNOLOGI INFORMASI DALAM MENDUKUNG PEMBELAJARAN ANAK BERKEBUTUHAN KHUSUS DI KECAMATAN MAJALAYA KABUPATEN BANDUNG

The efforts to overcome the limitations and services of children with special needs at Elementary Special School (SDLB) level has been carried out up through regular debriefing given to SDLB teachers, especially in designing, developing and utilizing ICT based instructional media. The debriefing was carried out through the process of ICT based instructional media training at district level of Bandung Regency. The analysis of SDLB teachers’ perceptions on the ease of improving services to SDLB children conducted in this study found that the use of ICT based instructional media is highly needed in the learning process. Out of 46 SDLB teachers participating as samples in multimedia workshop, they gave their opinion that training on ICT based instructional media was a positive effort to better improve services to children with special needs. This study recommended that the training could be given in a regular basis in order to improve the competency of SDLB teachers in developing ICT based instructional media.