The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of life-centered conveFsion
education on the daily-living skills of children with mental retardation who had
difficulties in adjusting themselves to society due to cognitive disorder, adaptability
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The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of life-centered conveFsion
education on the daily-living skills of children with mental retardation who had
difficulties in adjusting themselves to society due to cognitive disorder, adaptability
shortage and poor social shills.
The research questions were posed as follows:
1. Does life-centered conversion education have any effects mentally retarded
children's self-supporting skills in ever#day life?
2. Does life-centered conversion education have any effects on mentally retarded
children's basic working skills?
The subjects in this study were children with mental retardation from' school in
Ulreung-gun, north Gyeongsang Province, where special education wasn't yet
provided. They were 10 and 11 years o3d, and the experiment was conducted in 34
sessions for 17 weeks.
The input variable was life-centered conversion education program, and its effect
on mentally retarded children(EMR)'s daily-living skills was selected as a dependent
variable. Before and after the experiment, a vocational adaptability test was conducted to make a comparative analysis of their self-supporting skills in everyday
life and basic working skills. Whether or not there were any changes in the
children's behaviors in each session was recorded, and the degrees of their changes
in the early, middle and final stages were compared. And how a helper and the
parents of the children felt about the experiment was recorded
The findings of this study were as below'
First, the life-centered conversion education had a great effect on alleviating the
children's unwillingness for task performance, correcting improper task performance.
In addition those who had originally found it impossible to perform the given task
were encouraged to do it to some extent. That empowered them to make a progress
in fulfilling the given task on their own, and could subsequently be able to be
effective for the improvement of the mental]y retarded children's self-supporting
skills in everyday life.
Second, the life-centered conversion education greatly served to diminish the cases
that they couldn't perform the given task or were reluctant to do it, and improper or
independent task performance cases were on the rise. Therefore, that had an effect
on enhancing their basic working skills.
Third, the life-centered conversion education program relieved their negative action
and brought favorable changes to them, as they were able to express themselves,
had a greater intention to work on the given task, and improved in social skills.