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KMID : 0603920210290040035
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Journal of Korean Academy of Occupational Therapy
2021 Volume.29 No. 4 p.35 ~ p.52
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Effect of Early Intervention through Light Box Training on Developmental Level in Children With Autistic Features
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Kwon So-Hyun
Ahn Si-Nae
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Abstract
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Objective: Early intervention through light-box-training aims to verify the applicability and effectiveness ofchildren with autistic features to improve their play and pervasive developmental levels.
Methods: This study were three pre-school-age children with autistic features, and the study was conducted withan AB single-subject design. The baseline period was sensory integration therapy, and the intervention periodwas light-box-training, and the performance of each subject was measured through an evaluation of the shapediscrimination and color a image during each session. Korean Denver Developmental Screening Test-2(K-DDST-2), Korean-Child Development Inventory (K-CDI), and Knox Preschool Scale (KPPS) were used, andthe resulting analysis was confirmed based on the average score of the baseline and intervention periods, a visualanalysis through a trend line analysis, and the difference between pre- and post-test scores.
Results: As a result of each subject's performance, for subject A, the average score in shape discrimination andcolor image was constant, and for subject B, the average score in shape discrimination and color image increased.
Subject C’s average score in shape discrimination was constant, and the average score for the color imageincreased. As a result of the pre- and post-tests, in K-DDST-2, the personal-social, fine motor-adaptive, andgross motor developmental age increased in Subject A, and subjects B and C had increased fine motor-adaptiveand gross motor development age. In K-CDI, subjects A, B, and C all showed total increases in development,self-help behavior, and gross motor and fine motor development ages. In the KPPS, all areas except theparticipation of subject A, all areas except the virtual-symbol of subject B, and the development age of all areasexcept the spatial operation of subject C were increased.
Conclusion: This study confirmed that light-box-training has a positive effect on the play and pervasivedevelopment level
of autistic features in children as an early intervention, and verified the applicability andeffectiveness of light-box-training in children with such features.
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KEYWORD
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Play development, Light box training, Autistic features children, Pervasive developmental level
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