An Action Research of Using Board Games to Promote Social Skills for a Student with Autism

• Main Authors: CHEN, CHIEN-MIN, 陳健民
• Other Authors: CHEN, CHIEH-YU
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/593v43

碩士 === 國立臺北教育大學 === 特殊教育學系碩士班 === 106 === The purpose of this study was to explore the effectiveness of social skills learning for a student with autism playing board games with regular classmates, using action research method to the two cycle, a total of twenty courses. The subject was studying in a self-contained special education classroom in an elementary school at New Taipei City. The regular teachers in this school invited five students studying in the regular classrooms to participate in this study. After the courses, the researcher analyzed and summed up the following two conclusions by the social skills examination form, course video, curriculum activity log and interview data: First, using board games in social skills learning courses can enhance the quality of the social ability of the autism student including "looking at other peers, waiting and taking turns during the game, following the game rules," but the frequencies of these behaviors did not increase obviously. Second, the researcher improves his professional ability in the three aspects including "planning activities for improving social skills,", "selecting and using board games in teaching," and "cooperation, communication and coordination in the school." According to the results and conclusions of the study, recommendations were provided for future reference related to teaching and research.