유치원 교사의 언어치료 서비스에 대한 인식 조사

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate how much kindergarten teacher understand and what their perception are on speech and language therapy related services of children. The subjects in this study were 106 preschool and kindergarten teacher in Busan and GyeongNam Province. The questionnaire was used to investigate their general characteristics and problems of language and communication of children under their care and also to determine the level of their perception and understanding of speech and language therapy related services. The findings of this study are ;First, 61.31% of teachers replies they are aware of over 1 children who display communication problems in their class, pronunciation problem was most frequent and children who were receiving speech & language therapy belonged to only 29.23% of children. Second, They were most aware of language development delay in communication disorders' name and most well aware of autism, hearing impairment and mental retarded as disabilities that causing communication disorders. They were considered most important as areas of social/emotional development. For children who need individual guidance, professional knowledge was most needed. They have a conference with parents upon when discovering a child have language problems. Most of teacher didn't have received any disability related professional training and learning. Third, from the result of assessing the level of understanding of speech and language related services on a 5 point scale, the kindergarten teachers' level of understanding was revealed to relatively low.