The Effect of My Body Sticker Media on Sexual Education of Deaf Children in SLB YRTRW Surakarta

Sexual education should be introduced to children as early as possible to protect them from promiscuous behavior. Appropriate educational media can be utilized to enhance understanding of sexual education. Observations conducted by researchers revealed that there are 7 hearing-impaired students at SLB YRTRW Surakarta, identified in May of the 2023/2024 academic year, who have a limited understanding of sexual education. The "Body Stickers" media, which is a visual tool, can be adapted for use in teaching sexual education to hearing-impaired students. This study aims to improve the understanding of sexual education among hearing-impaired children at SLB YRTRW Surakarta. This research uses a quantitative approach with a pre-experimental design of one-group pretest-posttest. Data analysis employs non-parametric statistical methods, and hypothesis testing is carried out using the Wilcoxon test at a significance level of α = 0.05. The results show that the Body Stickers media can enhance the understanding of sexual education among 4th-grade hearing-impaired students at SLB YRTRW Surakarta. This is supported by the hypothesis test results, which reveal an Asymp. Sig. (2-tailed) value of 0.017, indicating that this value is less than the significance level of 0.05, thus H₁ is accepted.