著者

高原 光恵 津田 芳見

出版者

鳴門教育大学

雑誌

鳴門教育大学研究紀要 (ISSN:18807194)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.27, pp.94-99, 2012

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We examined the familiarity degree of the terms that concern the developmental disability in general public and also surveyed their source of information. The participants were 50 commoners, 4 females and 46 males. Many of them were age of 30s. In the questionnaire, there were 20 items including "developmental disability", "autism", "learning disability", "coordinator of special needs education" and so on. We requested participants to evaluate which level a familiarity degree in each word was. Excluding the two subjects' data because there were blanks, we analyzed 48 people's data. In the results, it was shown that most items concerning developmental disability were unfamiliar to general public. This result is different from other research conducted in teachers or welfare workers. It must be examined in other age groups to check whether this tendency is common. We concluded that it is necessary to improve the way of enlightenment for understanding developmental disability, not only for specialists but also for general public.

著者

高原 光恵 津田 芳見 橋本 俊顕 成瀬 進

出版者

鳴門教育大学

雑誌

鳴門教育大学研究紀要 鳴門教育大学 編 (ISSN:18807194)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.24, pp.58-63, 2009

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We examined the gaze point of adults who didn't have the symptoms of dyslexia when looking at a child's handwritten characters. Subjects were 14 adults, and half of them were teachers. They looked at 10 photo images that showed a boy writing characters, hiragana and kanji. Their gaze points were analyzed by using an eye tracking system. Three kinds of indices were as follows ; time to first fixation (TFF), fixation length (FL), and fixation counts (FC). The results showed there was no gaze point difference in all indices whether they have an experience as a teacher or not. But there was a difference among the areas as for "TFF" and "FL". Most subjects have a tendency to pay attention early to near the center and the first line. And longer fixation length areas were the final line and the central upper area. These results partly correspond to the preceding research.