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Individual educative instruction and its effect in children with learning disorder: 8 case analysis
Background: Educative instruction is good for the improvement of learning and behavior disorder in children with learning disorder. If this educative instruction were individualized, i. e. different education is provided for different individual, it would receive even better effects.
Objective: To explore the method and effect of educative instruction for children with learning disorder to accumulate experiences for the development of their learning potentials.
Design: A paired(pairing the subjects with similar age and learning disorder) case analysis based on the suffers.
Setting: A medical college of some university. Participants: Eight children with learning disorder were selected from Zhenjiang City Dongwu Kindergarten or Zhenjiang City Dagang Central Primary School. These 8 cases suffered from 4 types of disorders including clumsiness, seclusive personality, language disorder, and poor learning ability. Eight cases were randomly divided into education group and control group.
Methods: Cases of control group received normal educations without specific interventions. Cases of education group received individual customized educative instructions. The educative effects were observed after 3 months.
Main outcome measures: The improvement of clumsiness, seclusive personality, language disorder or poor learning ability in children with learning disorder.
Results: Cases of education group had better psychological and behavior improvements than that of control group after individual educative instruction.
Conclusion: Individual educative instruction for children with learning disorder is an effective approach for the development of their learning potentials.