• Journal of the korean academy of Pediatric Dentistry
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.149-159
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• 2006

과거 정신지체는 사회의 불가사의한 것이었으나 현재는 이들의 원인과 병리현상의 이해로 예방과 의학적 관리에 괄목할 만한 발전이 이루어져 왔다. 그러나 이들 정신지체인의 치과관리는 과거와 별다른 변화를 이루지 못한 것이 우리의 현실이다 이들에 관심을 갖고 치료하기 원하는 치과의사들도 아직 진단이나 치료방법에 이용이 제한되어있다 정신지체인 들에게도 정상화 개념을 도입해 보다 나은 건강관리 환경을 이루도록 시대가 바뀌어 가고 있다. 환자의 권리를 보장키 위해 수용시설 입소화. 물리적인 강제치료 등 기존의 일반적인 행위에서 탈피하여 이제는 행동조절의 차원에서 약물이용과 치과적용에 필요한 모든 지식의 습득이 필수적인 것으로 변화되고 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.251-254
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• 2002

정신지체학생은 주의 집중의 문제, 느린 학습속도, 기억력, 저조한 흥미와 관심 등으로 인하여 전통적 수업방식으로는 높은 학습효과를 기대하기 어렵다. 멀티미디어와 컴퓨터를 활용한 수업은 학생들의 흥미를 유발시켜 집중력이 향상될 뿐만 아니라 개인차가 심한 정신지체학생들에게 개별학습을 함으로써 높은 학습효과를 기대한 수 있다. 다양한 경험과 생환중심의 교육이 필요한 정신지체아동들이 실생활에서 접하기 힘든 내용을 가상적으로 경험할 수 있는 코스웨어나 학습한 후에 생활에 바로 적용할 수 있는 생활중심 코스웨어, 인터넷 환경의 웹 기반 코스웨어 등 정신지체 아동을 위한 소프트웨어는 거의 전무한 실정이다. 본 논문에서는 인터넷 환경에서 멀티미디어와 컴퓨터를 통하여 다양한 경험뿐만 아니라 실생활에 필요한 내용을 학습하여 사회성을 기를 수 있는 웹 기반 코스웨어 개발 방법을 제안한다.

• 가정의 벗
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• v.37 no.3 s.427
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• pp.22-23
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• 2004

중년이 되어가기 3년 전 쯤, 남은 여생 동안 무엇을 할 것인가를 고심하다가 정신지체 장애청소년을 위한 직업재활 타운을 설립해보자는 계획을 세웠다. 보호를 위주로 하는 기본 복지들과는 달리 아이들이 스스로 일해 경제적인 자리을 할 수 있는 기반을 조성하는 꿈동산을 만들고 싶다.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.29 no.5
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• pp.477-491
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• 2009

The purpose of this study is to analyze activities of mentally retarded students studying science within inclusive classes from the aspect of activity sharing to investigate ways of improving their involvement in the tasks. For this study, three mentally retarded students and their peer group in inclusive classes were observed and videotaped for 12 science class sessions about forces and waves. There were many cases in which task involvement of mentally retarded students changed according to three degrees of their activity sharing: well-synchronized, delayed and estranged. When degrees of activity sharing were estranged or delayed, task involvement of the mentally retarded students faded from activeness to passiveness. When the degree of activity sharing was well-synchronized, the mentally retarded students showed interest in learning and were able to participate in science class more actively. Different patterns of activity sharing of mentally retarded students between teacher-centered activities and student-centered activities were observed. In most cases of teacher-centered activities, the monotonous pace could deprive the mentally retarded students of their chance to catch up. As a result, their delayed degrees of activity sharing were faded into estranged degrees. In many cases of student-centered activities, various pacing according to the groups or students could provide mentally retarded students with a chance to catch up, so they could be well-synchronized. In one case of teacher-centered activity, the mentally retarded students were well-synchronized with the teacher's repeated explanations and well-matched illustrations on the blackboard and textbooks. In some cases of student-centered activities, students were well-synchronized with positive relations with and appropriate intervention by other students. In conclusion, various approaches to encourage activity sharing of mentally retarded students with normal ones should be pursued to improve task involvement and academic achievement of mentally retarded students.

• Journal of the korean academy of Pediatric Dentistry
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.202-207
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• 2000

The purpose of study was to compare the caries experience between the mentally retarded(MR) and the normal(N) children and adolescents and to survey the dental visit frequency. preventive dental care, and tooth-brushing behavior of the mentally retarded. Two hundred and fifty MR and two hundred and ten N subjects were selected for the study. 1. The number of teeth which had experienced caries was 3.28 in MR and 4.66 in N. The number of decayed teeth was 2.24 in MR and 1.50 in N. The number of filled teeth was 0.71 in MR and 3.06 in N Filled teeth rate was 19.78% in MR and 58.89% in N The differences between MR and N were all significant(P<0.01). 2. Dental visit frequency of MR was 1.15 per year, and the 51.2% of MR did not visit the dental clinic for the last one year. 38.0% of MR had received the preventive dental care. 3. Toothbrushing frequency per day was 2.16 and the toothbrushing time for 78.3% of MR was less than two minutes. 51.2% of MR brushed their teeth by themselves, 13.3% did with the help of the carers, and 35.5% totally depended on the carers. In conclusion, MR experienced less dental caries than N, had more untreated caries than N, and had need for regular preventive dental care.

• Journal of Music and Human Behavior
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.33-46
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• 2004

Mentally disable children feel as failure because they have difficulty in restricted and undifferentiated communications with others. It also makes the counter-partner feel frustrated. Therefore, in the aspects of language acquirement and communication activities, it is essential to let the disable children learn and communicate voluntarily. Music provides the unthreatening and interesting stimulus as non-language communication vehicle. Musical experiences for mentally disable children's are multi-stimulating experiences that make a positive influence in speech and language development and development of variety of talents. There are many communication intervention and method to treat the mentally disable children. One of the most effective treatments for mentally disable children to acquire communication techniques by expressing the language more naturally and joyfully is the musical therapy. This study analyzes children's communication technique referring to response action and attempt action through video tape observation. Also, this study measured the receptive and expressive language by PRES(Preschool Receptive-Expressive Language Scale) as a test tool in order to examine the pre-post language ability for respective children as pre-post period of therapy activity. First result of this study showed that music therapy with song was effective for mentally disable children in enhancing the communication techniques centered with communication response and in attempt action by increasing the communication action incidence. Secondly, pre-post comparison test with PRES showed that the music therapy with song was effective on improvement the receptive and expressive language ability of 4 children.

• Journal of the korean academy of Pediatric Dentistry
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.457-468
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• 2006

It is widely known that individuals with mental retardation (MR) and Down's syndrome (DS) often develop early onset periodontal diseases. In this study, the prevalence of periodontopathic bacteria in MR persons and DS patients was compared with normal persons. Plaque index and gingival index were measured. Five periodontopathic bacteria, Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans. Porphyromonas gingivalis, Tannerella forsythia, Treponema denticola, Fusobacterium nucleatum were surveyed in subgingival plaque samples by the polymerase chain reaction. Results : 1. Plaque index and gingival index were higher in MR persons group and DS patients group than normal persons group (p<0.05). 2. The prevalence of periodontopathic bacteria in normal persons group were lower than that of MR persons group and DS. Significant differences were observed in the prevalence of P. gingivalis, T. denticola and A. actinomycetemcomitans(P<0.05). 3. Prevalence of P. gingivalis(5.9%) at age 8-10 was lower than other ages in normal persons group, and its prevalence increased with age Prevalence of P. gingivalis, T. denticola and A. actinomycetemcomitans at MR persons group and DS patients group were higher than those of same ages of normal persons group. 4. Plaque index was associated with T. denticola and gingival index was associated with T. denticola and A. actinomycetemcomitans(P<0.05). These results suggested that plaque index, gingival index and prevalence of periodontopathic pathogens, especially P. gingivalis, T. denticola and A actinomycetemcomitans in DS patients group and MR persons group are higher than those of normal persons group.

• Journal of Music and Human Behavior
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.17-33
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• 2005

Music has a vital meaning in peoples' lives, mostly as a communication medium for thoughts and feelings. Because music is nonthreatening and nonjudgmental, its viability works for everyone. The purpose of this research is firstly to compare the effectiveness of existing social rehabilitation program and music integrated social rehabilitation program for people with mental retardation. Secondly, the study purported to find out if the music integrated social rehabilitation program was effective, then how various musical activities can assist communication and expression, and further assist social interactions among the people with mental retardation. The data were collected using Emotions Assessment Tool, Social Skills Assessment, and Skills development in Music were used. Also, verbal contents, voices, gestures, nonverbal expressions were observed and analyzed. As the result, it is shown that the music integrated social rehabilitation program has enhanced communicative and expressive skills of adults with mental retardation, and further improved social interactive skills. This implies that music had positive effects to the mental patients on their social relationship activities, than the program without music integration. The results support previous findings that music can be an effective communicative and expression tool.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.8
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• pp.484-495
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• 2012

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of game-based-digital textbook on the basic arithmetic abilities and the task attention of students with mental retardation. To do this, 38 students with mental retardation participated and were assigned to the three groups. The first group only used the traditional text book, the second group only used the game-based-digital textbook, and the third group used both the traditional textbook and the game-based-digital textbook. The third group using both the traditional textbook and the game-based-digital textbook revealed more higher improvement than the other two groups in the basic arithmetic and the task attention.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.77-85
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• 2012

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of Tetris game on the cognitive abilities of students with mental retardation. Especially, this study focused on the arrangement of figures and the task attention. To do this, 33 students with mental retardation in a middle school participated and were assigned to the two treatment group. The experimental group did the Tetris game three times a week for 4 weeks, but the control group didn't the Tetris game. The experimental group revealed more higher improvement than the control group in the arrangement of figures and the task attention. The Tetris game can be used as an educational program to improve the cognitive abilities of students with mental retardation.