FUNDAMENTAL STUDY ON THE PROGNOSIS OF THE HANDICAPPED CHILDREN : IV. A CONTINUED REPORT ON THE DEVELOPMENTAL RHYTHMS OF THE SPEECH AND LANGUAGE DISORDERED CHILDREN

前回の報告では、障害児の予後に関する基礎研究の一環として、小学校のことばの教室に通級する言語障害児6名(全般的な発達の遅れによる者で9歳代の3名、情緒面の障害による者で8歳代の3名)を対象に自然観察法により毎週1回約1年間試みた縦断的観察の結果に基づき、言語障害児の行動面と言語面にどのようなリズム性が認められるかを検討した。結果は、発達の遅れの子ども1名を除いて、他のいずれの子どもにもリズム性が見出された。リズム性には個人差があり、また、言語障害のタイプによる差の存在も窺われた。そこで、今回は、さらに観察を継続させて、前回報告分の1年間の観察資料にその後の継続観察資料1年分を加えた、2年間の観察資料に基づいて、再度リズム性を検討した。その結果、1年間の観察(前回報告分)で見出された上述の傾向は、2年間の観察資料でも概ね見出されることが確認された。As a sequel to the previous one-year longitudinal study, this study aimed at investigating the "developmental rhythms" of the speech and language disordered children on the basis of the data from a two-year longitudinal observation. Six children with speech and language disorders of an elementary school were chosen as subjects. Three children, aged nine, had speech delay from general developmental delay, and the other three children, aged eight, had speech delay with emotional disturbance. Each child's overall behavior during his or her individual speech therapy was recorded on video tape for 25 minutes each week. The speech therapy assumed a from of free play applying a wide variety of equipment in a play room. The video tape was transcribed and analyzed in terms of "rhythms" by the application of Moriya's (1975, 1976b) classification system of inter-personal behavior. Like in the previous one-year study, the results showed some rhythmical change in their behavior andor in their speech and language with the exception of one case. As a rule, the rhythms of the behaviors of the speech delayed children with emotional disturbance had a larger behavioral context than those of the speech delayed children from general developmental delay. As suggested by our previous study, these facts seemed to suggest that there was individual difference as well as difference in the type of disorder in the rhythmical changes among the speech and language disordered children