Ms. Ade Putri Sarwendah is a special education teacher. She takes care of students with intellectual disabilities. Her inspiration to become a teacher came from her parents, who are teachers in public schools. Later, she desires to get a special education from reading a book titled “SHEILA” written by Torey Hayden. It is a story of a teacher who struggles to teach students with various types of special needs. The book inspires her to dedicate her ability, knowledge and skills to help students with special needs be able to learn and be independent.

She has been constantly trained in various topics such as human sexuality education for children with special needs and maternal reflective methods. She has conducted research on various topics, including the use of technology in hybrid learning for students with special needs in 2023, character values in project-based thematic learning for special students in 2022,

and the use of the Gembira application to train sensitivity to sound and voice for deaf students in 2020. It is not surprising that she recently received the Favorite Participant in the Category of Special School at the National Level in 2024. In the same year, she also received 1st Place for Innovative Teachers for Special Schools in East Kalimantan Province. Previously, her innovation for children with special needs won 1st Place at the national level and 3rd Place in the Educational Media Application Creation Competition of Diskominfo, Balikpapan City, in 2022.

Ms. Ade Putri Aarwendah holds a master’s degree in special education from Yogyakarta State University, Indonesia. She also graduated with a master’s degree in education management from Wijaya Putra University in Surabaya, Indonesia. She received her Bachelor of Special Education from Yogyakarta State University, Indonesia.