[The necessity and possibility of developing skills in daily living activities in children attending a special kindergarten for the physically handicapped--demonstrated by means of a five-year-old boy suffering from spastic hemiparesis (author's transl)].
Within the framework of an empirical study carried out in a special kindergarten it was attempted to answer the question whether it is necessary and possible in such an institution to develop the children's skills in daily living activities. A six month systematic programme was set up for a five-year-old boy suffering from spastic hemiparesis which was designed to develop his skills in personal hygiene, and general behaviour in the kitchen area. In preparing the programme each of the two fields was first treated separately in detail, then the common factors taken into account. The programm's subdivision into an ultimate goal and two partial goals assisted the implementation of the eighteen training steps. A comparision of the knowledge of, and skills in, the two fields before and after the training showed that they had increased both in quantity and quality. As the boy still showed a headway over his peers - comparable in their disabilities - three years after completion of the programme as far as independence was concerned, it can be said that special training in daily living activities can and must be carried out in a special kindergarten for physically handicapped children provided the training is based on a specialized and fully structured programme.
D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004519:Education, Special; D006429:Hemiplegia / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009048:Motor Skills; D009128:Muscle Spasticity / Q000534:rehabilitation*
Die Notwendigkeit und Möglichkeit der speziellen lebenspraktischen Förderung im Sonderkindergarten für Körperbehinderte--aufgezeigt am Beispiel eines fünfjährigen Jungen mit spastischer Hemiparese.