Deaf children are children who lose hearing experience both partially or
in whole, which means that their senses do not function as well. SMALB
Dharma Wanita is a school devoted to help students with physical and mental
disorders including deaf children to get education and guidance, deaf children
get various kinds of problems, such us personal, social, learning and career
problems. SMALB Dharma Wanita holds a commitment to realize optimal
education for children with special needs to form competent, skill, moral,
dignified and independent people and participate in community and life. The
focus of this research is about the implementation of management guidance
programs for deaf children of SMALB Dharma Wanita which are planning,
organizing, actuating, and controlling.
The type of research used is field research with a descriptive qualitative
approach. The object of this research is the management of a guidance program
for deaf children in the South Borneo Province of SMALB Dharma Wanita. The
research subjects are the principal of the SMALB, guidance counselor
Coordinator and Teachers of SMALB Dharma Wanita, South Borneo Province.
Data are collected using interviews, observation and documentation, it is analyzed
through the stages of data collection, data reduction, data presentation and
conclusions.verification methodology for checkingdata validity are: extension of
the research period, persistence of observation, and triangulation.
The results of this study are: (1) The planning of the deaf children's
guidance program at Dharma Wanita's SMALB is in accordance with the
operational guidelines for organizing counseling guidance, namely by conducting
needs assessments, obtaining support from school leaders and committees,
determining the basis for service planning and preparing annual and semiannual
guidance and counseling programs. (2) The organization of the deaf children's
guidance program at SMALB Dharma Wanita adheres to the first pattern, where
guidance and counseling activities are carried out by all staff, at this school the
principal also doubles as a counseling guidance teacher, the school principal runs
the entire mechanism of counseling guidance services assisted by all staff. The
organization of counseling for deaf children counseling at Dharma Wanita
SMALB has not been organized. This is evidenced by the absence of counseling
guidance teachers in the school organizational structure, specifically the
counseling guidance organizational structure, and the structure of the counseling
guidance service mechanism(3) The implementation of the deaf mentoring
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program at SMALB Dharma Wanita is carried out by providing individual
counseling services, group guidance and supplementary placement and
distribution services, using appropriate approach techniques in these services.
In the application of services, female Dharma female SMALB counseling
guidance teachers have not made a service implementation plan (RPL) and made a
repor (4) Supervision of the deaf children's guidance program at the Dharma
Wanita SMALB is carried out by assessing or evaluating the implementation of
counseling guidance that has been carried out by the guidance and counseling
teacher of deaf children in Dharma Wanita SMALB in terms of the report, it is in
accordance with the operational guidelines for the implementation of guidance
and counseling.