경도 지적장애 아동의 언어발달 및 소근육 운동능력 향상을 위한 미술치료 단일사례연구 = A Single Case Study of Art Therapy for the Language Development and Small Muscle Motor Ability Improvement of Children with Mild Intellectual Disabilities

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study purposed to investigate the effect of art therapy on the language development and small muscle motor ability improvement of children with mild intellectual disabilities. The study subjects were second-grade girls with intellectual disability attending an elementary school in A city and took 24 therapy sessions weekly for 50 minutes from November 2022 to April 2023. As a research tool, the study performed the Preschool Acceptive-Express Language Scale(PRES) test to examine their language development, conducted the Korea Institute for Special Education(KISE) to see their small muscle motor ability improvement, and both tests measured before and after and compared the degree of quantitative and qualitative changes. The research results were as follows. First, art therapy was positively effective in their language development and showed more significant changes in the cognitive/semantic sub-areas of cognitive content. Second, art therapy showed more advanced changes in writing ability and sophistication, which were sub-areas of their muscle ability. Putting this study together, verbal demonstrations using art media in each session induced imitation speech, positively changing their language development and media manipulation directly helped their small muscle motor skills improvement. Based on these findings, the study discussed the significance and limitations.