This paper is intended to explore the development process of a hearing-impaired child's prosocial behavior in the integrated kingdergarten classroom which was observed over the three years (from 2000 to 2002). The researcher collected the research mat...
This paper is intended to explore the development process of a hearing-impaired child's prosocial behavior in the integrated kingdergarten classroom which was observed over the three years (from 2000 to 2002). The researcher collected the research materials through the observation has of the children in child-chosen activity from March to December. Each observation took 30 to 40 minutes.The findings are as follows.As for the pattern of the reciprocal responses, in 2000 only the normal children were found to accept, help and give a model to the hearing-impaired child. In 2001 the latter was found to attract, accept and imitate the former. in 2002 both the parties advanced to show equal relations to each other in such matlers as assistance, acceptance, access, cooperation, exclusiveness and argument. Speaking of the development process of prosocial behavior patterns, in 2000 the hearing-impaired child couldn't develop the ability to form interpersonal relation and in 2001 he had difficulty in his mutual relation with the normal children. However in 2002 he managed to form equal relation with his normal peer group.