Development of assessment tool used by the nursery teacher at nursery for 'children with special care needs'

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24593359
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Lifelong developmental nursing
• Research Institution: Kanazawa University
• Principal Investigator: TSUDA Akiko 金沢大学, 保健学系, 准教授 (40272984)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): KIMURA Rumiko 金沢大学, 保健学系, 教授 (90169946) ; MASUDA Rika 立命館大学, 応用人間科学研究科, 教授 (70409316) ; FUKUI Itsuko 金沢星稜大学, 人間科学部, 准教授 (60390374)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 気になる子ども / 発達障害 / 早期発見 / 保育園

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this study is, that by elucidating the problems of “children with special care needs” and then to develop assessment tool, which can be utilized by nursery teacher at nursery to assess them.
Four-hundred forty three children were evaluated by the nursery teachers for one year. The ratio of “children with special care needs” was 19.6%, regarding the gender ratio, boys 30.7% and girls 8.2%, thus boys were significantly higher. Behavioral characteristics of "children with special care needs" have been classified, such as low of society, hyperactivity, hyper sensitivity, and autistic tendency. In addition, some patterns reminiscent of a disorder has been extracted. The parents of such children often felt difficulty to involvement with the child, and there were the indicative of the parent-child relationship problem.

Free Research Field

小児保健学