ENHANCING MEDIA EFFECTS ON ED AND LD CHILDREN

有令人信服的证据表明，情感和智力 残疾儿童看过多的电视， 极易受到媒体，尤其是电视的负面影响 侵略 对正常儿童的研究表明， 通过系统地教育孩子来减少电视的负面影响 如何成为挑剔和有鉴别力的电视观众 虽然这些课程 已经在正常儿童身上进行了测试，但没有针对残疾儿童的测试。 孩子 拟议项目的主要目标是评估 现有但经修订的校本电视鉴赏技巧课程 在改善电视相关的知识，态度和行为， 有情绪障碍和学习障碍的儿童。 次要目标 是为了确定电视暴力观看，攻击行为， 以及对批判性观看技能课程的反应能力 残疾人，对电视了解甚少 使用和效果。 8-11岁艾德儿童12个班，同龄LD儿童12个班 孩子们将被分配到两个条件之一（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人物的危险， 如何区分电视中的真实的与虚幻的，以及如何评价电视 广告。 课程对儿童攻击行为的影响， 电视知识和态度，对攻击性电视的认同 人物，对暴力节目现实主义的信仰，以及对电视的接触 暴力将被衡量。

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.