Development of Language-Cognitive Program for Prevention of Learning Disabilities in Preschool Children

1)在2001年春季对180名5岁学龄前儿童进行诊断研究的基础上，成功开发了5岁高危儿童学习困难诊断系统。它的有效性通过20022春季进行的入学准备研究证实)开发了一系列语言认知教学程序，计算机软件，用于预防学习障碍：(1)计算机入门程序，(2)平假名识字入门程序，(3)汉字读写程序，(4)十进制基础教学程序。3)从2001年6月到2003年3月，我们对10名5岁高危儿童进行了为期两年的教学实验，使用计算机和自行开发的各种程序，进行了为期两年的个别教学实验。由于我们对他们进行了两年的教育干预，在2003.4-03学年末进行的日语、算术和智力能力的最终评估测试中，每10名儿童中有6名被证实阻止了学习障碍的发生。数据分析表明，通过这种特殊教育预防学习障碍的成功与否在很大程度上取决于他们入学时形成的就学准备程度。

1) A diagnostic system for identification of children at high risk of learning disabilities at age five has been successfully developed on the base of.the diagnostic research study conducted to about 180 five-year-old preschool children in spring, 2001. It's validity was confirmed through the school readiness research study conducted in spring, 20022) Series of language-cognitive teaching programs, computer software, for the prevention of learning disabilities has been developed: (1) Introductory programs to a computer, (2)Introductory program for literacy in Hiragana, (3) a reading and writing program of Kanji, (4) a program teaching the basis of decimal system. Additionally, (5) a lexicon-semantic programs through learning classification of various kinds of objects was also developed.3) We conducted a teaching experiment to ten five-year-old children at high risk of learning disabilities for about two yeas from June 2001 until March 2003 by individual teaching method using a computer and various kinds of program developed by us. As the result of our educational intervention to them for two years, 6 out of 10 children were confirmed to be prevented from learning disabilities by the final evaluation tests of their abilities in Japanese, arithmetic and of intelligence, conducted at the end of the academic year of the 1st grade, March, 2003.4) The analysis of data shows that the success of prevention of learning disabilities by such special education depends much upon the degree offormation of school readiness in them at the period of school entrance.