규칙적인 체육활동이 자폐아동의 신체발달과 사회화에 미치는 영향

The Effects of Regular Physical Activities on Physical Development and Socialization of the Autistic Children

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of regular physical activities that are regularlly exercised on autistic children`s physical development and socialization. The subjects of the study were 12 autistic children in clinical diagnosis that participate in physical activity class for adaptive children from among 22 developmental disorder children. The instrument used for this study consisted of two components of physical development, socialization scale as Lambert, Nihira developed. The method of the study was based on the A-B-A` design of the sigle-subject repeated measurement design where A is the baseline; B is the intervention; and A` is the baseline after the intervention of the experiment.