An Action Research on Art Activities To Promote the Social Skills of Student with Autism in Elementary School

• Main Authors: Pin-Chun Liu, 柳品君
• Other Authors: Hsin-Yi Wang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/neqh65

碩士 === 國立臺中教育大學 === 特殊教育學系碩士在職專班 === 105 === The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of art activities on social skills for pupils with Autism. The research especially focuses on the aspects of Skills of Learning in Classroom, Communication Skills, Personal Initiative Social Skills, Skills of Interacting with Others. This research is based on action research. The object of the study is the student with Autism who was chosen from “social skills checklist ”, which is edited by the researcher. The case study is a second grade student with Autism who has been placed in a regular class, while getting help from the resource class at the same time. The study was implemented for two cycles, one is lasting for ten weeks of small group art activities and the other is five times of class art activities. After two weeks of small group art activities, it ran class art activities once. Through the participation of peers and the integration of natural situations, it increased the opportunities for students with autism to use social skills. Besides, it also enhanced the special education knowledges of the class students and the professional abilities of teachers. After teaching the courses, the analysis of the data was collected from pretest and posttest of “Social Skills Checklist”, “Teacher’s Teaching Reflection logs” and “Interview Record”. The study comes to the following conclusions: 1. Art activities can promote the social skills in “Skills of Learning in Classroom, Personal Initiative Social Skills, Skills of Interacting with Others.” for pupils with Autism in small group. 2. Art activities effectively increased the social skills in“ Personal Initiative Social Skills, Skills of Interacting with Others.” for pupils with Autism in the whole class. 3. The researcher has enhanced the professional competence in three parts, including “implement inclusion education”, “cooperation between special education and general education” and “project and implement for teaching courses of social skills with art activities”. According to the aforementioned findings, the research provided some applications for the teaching guidance and the further researches practical recommendations.