장애아동을 위한 원예치료 : Effect of HT as a Altemative Therapy, Especially in the United States 대체치료의 일환으로서의 원예치료, 미국의 사례를 중심으로 = Horticultural Therapy for the Disabled Children

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The disability has meaning of either physical or mental impairment restricting motality, communication, self-care, and interpersonal skills, etc., and requires manifold levels of rehabilitation system. Especially in the case of disabled children, the disability may result in causing serious problems of reduction in much potentialities they deserve in the early stage of development. Children's disability includes trauma of cerebral palsy, spinabifida, neurogical, spiral cord, and brain impairments, etc. The problem of theses disabilities arise in muscle motors such as fine-and gross-motor skills, the coordination as visual motor cooperation, or in cognition of maintaining the concentration ability, or of long and short memorizings. Various alternative therapies must be needed for the children in order to gain their rehabilitation and social restoration influences, and are recently common in the United States. Horticultural therapy being one of them is known to have noted benefits for the disabled with multi-motor skills, responsibility for taking care of raising plants, cognitive skills of self-esteem, and motivation. Horticultural therapy either alone in combination with other alternative means as music or pet therapy for the disabled children have also been documented often, and known to increase subscaling in depression, hyperactivity, social interaction, depression, anxiety and intellectual screening. Horticultural activities by the disabled children are likewise supposed to provide them with a wise range of educational opportunities through various practical hand-on experiences. These information of the beneficial activity are the example of Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine and Kluge Children's Rehabilitation Center recently operating in the United State.