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The Cerebral Palsy Children's Emotional Characteristics revealed in Free-Drawing

  • Journal of Special Education: Theory and Practice
  • Abbr : JSPED
  • 2007, 8(2), pp.475-492
  • Publisher : Research Institute of the Korea Special Education
  • Research Area : Social Science > Education

Jaekweon Chung 1 이혜숙 2 정미영 3

1우석대학교
2명신대학교
3대구대학교

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ABSTRACT

To investigate the cerebral palsy children's emotional characteristics revealed in free-drawing, we analyzed those characteristics after dividing them into 4 subclassification : self-confidence / stability, anxiety/ depression, aggression / impulsiveness, withdrawal / dependence through the free-drawing of 44 cerebral palsy children attending the school physically handicapped.The conclusions from the analyzed results are as follows:First, regarding the spastic children's emotional characteristics, the boys showed aggression / impulsiveness disposition while the girls high self-confidence/ stability.Second, concerning the degree of impediment, the first class and second class showed aggression / impulsiveness, the third class self-confidence / stability. so we conclude that the more serious their impediment are, the more offensive and impulsive the children are.Third, Referring to the children's impediment types, we found that the children with convulsive fit had self-confidence / stability while many children without that were aggression / impulsiveness.As this study was intended for a few students, the results from this study can't always be applied to every case. On the basis of this study some suggestions could be made as follows for the more study afterward.First, it is necessary to analyze the emotional characteristics by the educational length.Second, it is also necessary to analyze the impediment situation in detail.

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