著者

川崎 聡大 福島 邦博

出版者

富山大学人間発達科学部

雑誌

富山大学人間発達科学部紀要 (ISSN:1881316X)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.4, no.1, pp.29-34, 2009-11

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The aim of this study is to reveal how a set of training in Japanese syntax can affect on communication ability of a case of PDD. An eight-year old girl (Second grade year in Japanese School), who was diagnosed to have autism and mild mental retardation, was involved in this study. Baseline developmental status was FIQ63 (VIQ75, PIQ57) with WISC-III and receptive vocabulary was equivalent to 6 years and 1 month old with PVT.Receptive and productive syntax ability was equivalent to first half of 3 years old children (Stage 4-2 by S-S language developmental tests) and dissociation between syntax ability and other aspects of language development was observed. A training program was planned to make her use Japanese syntactic particles (Stage 5-2 by S-S) during Aug. 2006 to Nov 2006. T-QAR was evaluated before and after training to evaluate her communication ability. Three months after the commencement of this training program, she could pass Stage 5-2 and total score of T-QAR improved from 177 (Before training: equivalent to 4 year-old score)to 220 (Aftert raining: equivalent to 5 year-old score). Selected approach in limited language domains may be able to improve the child's total communication ability.