ENHANCING MEDIA EFFECTS ON ED AND LD CHILDREN

有令人信服的证据表明，在情感和智力上 残疾儿童看电视看得太多，而且 极易受到媒体，尤其是电视的负面影响 攻击性。对正常儿童的研究表明，有可能 通过系统地教育儿童来减少电视的不利影响 如何批评和辨别电视观众。虽然这样的课程 已经在正常儿童身上进行了测试，但残障儿童没有这样的测试 孩子们。 拟议项目的主要目标是评估以下项目的有效性 现有但经过修改的以学校为基础的评论电视观看技能课程 在改善与电视相关的知识、态度和行为方面 情绪障碍和学习障碍儿童。次要目标 是为了确定电视暴力观看、攻击性行为、 以及对批判性观看技能课程的响应 残疾人，对电视知之甚少 用法和效果。 8-11岁ED儿童12个班和同龄LD儿童12个班 儿童将被分配到两个条件中的一个(电视课程或没有 课程)。电视技能课程将教孩子们关于 观看电视暴力和认同暴力角色的危险， 如何区分电视上的真实和虚幻，以及如何评价电视 商业广告。 课程设置对儿童攻击行为的影响， 对电视的知识和态度，对攻击性电视的认同 角色，对暴力节目现实主义的信念，以及对电视的接触 暴力将会被衡量。

There is compelling evidence that emotionally and intellectually handicapped children watch excessive amounts of television and are extremely vulnerable to the negative effects of the medium, especially TV aggression. Research on normal children has shown that it is possible to reduce television's adverse influences by systematically teaching children how to be critical and discriminating TV viewers. While such curricula have been tested on normal children, no such test exists for handicapped children. The primary goal of the proposed project is to assess the effectiveness of an existing but modified school-based critical TV viewing skills curriculum in improving the television-related knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors of emotionally disturbed and learning disabled children. The secondary goal is to determine the correlates of TV violence viewing, aggressive behavior, and responsiveness to the critical viewing skills curriculum for this handicapped population, about which so little is known regarding television usage and effects. Twelve classes of 8-11 year old ED children and 12 classes of same aged LD children will be assigned to one of two conditions (TV curriculum or no curriculum). The TV skills curriculum will teach the children about the dangers of watching TV violence and identifying with violent characters, how to discriminate between real and fantasy on TV, and how to evaluate TV commercials. The effects of the curricula on the children's aggressive behavior, knowledge and attitudes about television, identification with aggressive TV characters, belief in the realism of violent programs, and exposure to TV violence will be measured.