Hazarika Mythili, Talukdar Uddip, Choudhury Sandamita, Das Shyamanta
Department of Psychiatry, Gauhati Medical College Hospital, Guwahati, Assam, India.
Department of Psychiatry, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed Medical College Hospital, Barpeta, Assam, India.
J Rural Community Psychiatr. 2014 Jul-Dec;1(2):56-65.
A growing number of mentally challenged individual are being excluded mainly from the educational process because of a presumed inability to learn.
The study is aimed at identifying the efficacy of psychosocial and vocational training for mentally challenged in a day care centre.
The sample for the study consisted of 30 clinically diagnosed mentally challenged children (N=30, boy=18, girl=12), who are enrolled in Ashadeep day care centre. Methods employed were a semi demographic questionnaire and Vineland Social Maturity Scale to assess the improvement of the child across the various subscales in the pre post test sessions. Correlation coefficient and t-test was used to compare the profile of the children across both the sessions.
Age of onset of therapy and the duration does not have significant effect on the outcome, but 'higher the IQ' more positive outcome can be seen. The subscales do not correlate when it comes to affecting each other. Girls showed much poor outcomes than boys in the self0help general subscale.
The study ascertained the fact that education and training of the mentally subnormal child is also possible, and psychosocial and vocational training lead to improving the social competence of the child.
越来越多的智障人士主要因为被认为无学习能力而被排除在教育过程之外。
本研究旨在确定日托中心对智障人士进行心理社会和职业培训的效果。
研究样本包括30名临床诊断为智障的儿童（N = 30，男孩18名，女孩12名），他们就读于阿沙德普日托中心。采用的方法是半人口统计学问卷和文兰社会成熟量表，以评估儿童在前后测试阶段各子量表上的进步。使用相关系数和t检验来比较两个阶段儿童的情况。
治疗开始的年龄和持续时间对结果没有显著影响，但“智商越高”，结果越积极。各子量表之间在相互影响方面没有相关性。在自助一般子量表上，女孩的结果比男孩差得多。
该研究确定了这样一个事实，即对智力发育迟缓儿童的教育和培训也是可行的，心理社会和职业培训有助于提高儿童的社会能力。
