IN-HOUSE TRAINING AS AN EFFORT TO IMPROVE KNOWLEDGE OF SPECIAL SCHOOL TEACHERS FOR THE DEAF ABOUT AUDIOVISUAL LEARNING MEDIA DEVELOPMENT.

The understanding of teachers in special schools for the deaf about developing audiovisual learning media for deaf students are still minimal, causing the need for a training to overcome these problems. The purpose of this study was to determine whether the implementation of in-house training provided can improve teachers' understanding of the development of audiovisual learning media for deaf and hard-of-hearing students in special school. The design of audiovisual learning media is based on previous study. There are eight elements considered in the design: subtitle, legibility, font, colour, text speed, animation, window positioning and focus. This research is carried out in three specialized school for the deaf. We choose mathematics and science, for instance biology, as sample learning audiovisual media. The participants for this research are teachers from three special schools: SLB.B Tabanan, SLB.B Denpasar and SLB.B Jimbaran. Statistical analysis using Wilcoxon signed rank test strongly suggests improvement in understanding in developing audiovisual learning media for the deaf and hard-of-hearing students.