무용활동이 정신지체아의 사회적응행동 및 표현력에 미치는 영향 = The effect of participation in dance activity program on social adaptive behavior and expression skills of the mentally retarded

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study was performed to investigate the effect of dance activity program on social adaptive behavior such as self-supporting skill, social-emotional behavior and cognitive ability and the expression skills such as emotion skills of the mentally retarded. For this purpose of the study, we selected 20 mentally-retarded children in middle schools and they were divided into 2 groups, a dance program participating group(n=10) and control group(n=10), during 22-week periods. The dance activity program which was designed to participate twice per week and practice during 60 minutes in 22 weeks. With this process of program, we obtained some significant results and drew a conclusion.
First, dance activity program have some positive effect on the improvement of self-supporting skill, social-emotional behavior and cognitive ability of those children.
Second, dance activity program have some positive effect on the improvement of emotion expression skills, movement expression skills and speech expression skills of those children.
In general terms of this study, it would be possible to suggest that dance activity has some positive functions to improve the social adaptive behavior and expression skills of the mentally-retarded children. Considering the above advantageous effects, dance activity program for the mentally retarded could be significantly effective in improving their physical fitness, leading to mental rest and increasing social ability, so it could be considered as one of the effective ways for the rehabilitation and the treatment of mentally retarded persons.