Model Development and Trial of Early Detection Manual for the Special Needs Children at Early Age Education Level

This research was aimed to produce the manual for early detection for ABK at the level of early age education (PAUD = Pendidikan Anak Usia Dini). Research was action research with stages as proposed by Buunk and Van Vugt . Metodology of research these stages were called as PATH (Problem-Analysis-Test (Model)-Help). Results of research indicated that based on the examination on three schools for the training of early detection, the average score before training was 22 but after training was 52. The value of Z was -2.384 and p-value (Asymp. Sig-2 tailed) was 0.017, meaning that there is a significant difference before and after early detection training. It supports a fact that early detection manual has impacted significantly PAUD teachers in doing early detection. The evaluation of teachers showed that early detection training was very gratifying, and the given score was 5 in average. It can be said that PAUD teachers were very satisfied and gaining a lot of benefits from early detection training.