While much research has been conducted on learning style in Korea, no study has been done to investigate the learning style of elementary school students with cerebral palsy. Incorporating learning styles information into the curriculum for the studen...
While much research has been conducted on learning style in Korea, no study has been done to investigate the learning style of elementary school students with cerebral palsy. Incorporating learning styles information into the curriculum for the students with cerebral palsy is a means of providing differentiated instruction.
Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine whether elementary school students with cerebral palsy display different learning style preferences from non-disabled students and whether there are learning style differences between the male and female with cerebral palsy, spastic and non-spastic cerebral palsy.
This study selected 45 elementary school students with cerebral palsy and 45 without disabilities and employed the Learning Style Inventory Primary Version designed by Janet Perrin.
The findings of this study indicated that elementary school students with cerebral palsy significantly differed from non-disabled students on the following variables: sound, motivation, sociological, mobility. The study also indicated there were no significant differences in the learning style between the male and female with cerebral palsy. However there were significant differences between the spastic and non-spastic cerebral palsy on the following variables: light, perceptual strengths, time of day.
Based on these findings, intervention adapted by learning style preferences of the students with cerebral palsy can be provided.