2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Study on Teaching Swimming to a Severely Handicapped Autistic Adult : The Effects of Learning Synchronized Swimming in a pool on Long-Distance Swimming in the Sea
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19500536
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Sports science
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| Research Institution | Wakayama University |
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Principal Investigator |
HARA Michinori Wakayama University, 教育学部, 教授 (00108002)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2007 – 2009
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| Keywords | 行動制御の重度な知的障害 / 水泳 / 遠泳 / シンクロ的泳ぎ / アフォーダンスによる潜りと呼吸動作 |
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| Research Abstract |
The purpose of our study was to ascertain whether the subject A ; GOCHAN, a 26-year-old man who is a severely handicapped autistic adult, was to able to do long-distance swimming in the sea through learning synchronized swimming in a pool for three years (2007-2009). The results were as follows. He couldn't swim most of the course in 2009, in spite of being able to swim almost all of the course in 2008. It was thought that two factors are behind such a change. One is his disorder itself, the other is the working-memory in the frontal lobe. Therefore, it was thought that the most important things in learning tasks in the pool were to learn a breathing method on the basis of Affordance, i.e.diving and breathing using a set of floating poles, and to learn the skills of synchronized swimming with others.
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