Article

The improvement of social interaction skills through a physical touch activity program for developmentally delayed young children, based on Developmental Play Therapy

Author

정계숙,이정희,노진형

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pp. 59~82 / 2009 Vol.16 No.1

Abstract

This study aimed to improve the social interaction skills of developmentally delayed young children through a physical touch activity program based on Developmental Play Therapy. Two young children with developmental delays participated in 15 sessions running for 60 minutes once a week. The target behaviors of the children, getting intervention teachers to ask the children to make eye contact with peers, to participate in group activities, and to initiate interactions and responses to peers were checked frequency by means of the event sampling method and described qualitative changes by means of anecdotal recordings. As a result, the physical contact activity program brought about a number of positive changes in social interaction skills of developmentally delayed young children. The implications for the social skill program and teaching methods for developmentally delayed young children were also discussed.

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