The objective of this research is to introduce effects of the application of theatre based group language therapy for children with developmental language delay and social disability. To play a role in theatre, it needs not only language training such...
The objective of this research is to introduce effects of the application of theatre based group language therapy for children with developmental language delay and social disability. To play a role in theatre, it needs not only language training such as articulation and language, but also social training such as eye contact, turn-taking and imitation. We have first wrote a paly-script considering the language, articulatory and social ability state of each member of the therapy group. After 20 sessions, they can perform a reading drama. For the estimation of articulation, lexical and morpho-syntactical ability and of social maturation, one pretest and one post-test have been done using U-TAP(Urimal Test of articulation and phonology), REVT(Receptive and Expressive Vocabulary Test), KOSECT and SM(social maturity Scale). This research is on going. However, the result of this work shows the effects of theatre based group language therapy on the development of social skill and language for children with social and language disabilities.