Mentally retarded 86 children with behavioral disorder at the special school have been reaccessed by neurological examination, autistic behavior checklist designed by Krug et al as well as measurement of developmental status by Griffth mental developm...
Mentally retarded 86 children with behavioral disorder at the special school have been reaccessed by neurological examination, autistic behavior checklist designed by Krug et al as well as measurement of developmental status by Griffth mental development scale to evaluate the effects of special education.
14 children(16%) of 86 were typical autistic children, 16 children(19%) pervasive develop-mental disorder not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS), 7 children(8%) Asperger's syndrome, and the rest 49 children(57%) were simple mental retardation.
The result of the special education for one year as following, the typical autistic children improved by ABC scores except language subitem, PDD-NOS also improved except sensory and relating subitem. and children with Asperger's syndrome improved only in social & self help subitem and otherwise deteriorated in developmental status even the special education.
In general, Asperger's syndrome in known to have better prognosis than autism and PDD-NOS. but our result revealed that Asperger's syndrome was more deteriorated. And we concluded that the education for the children of pervasive developmental diserder must be carried out each other by classified autism, PDD-NOS, Asperger's syndrome for better educational effectiveness.