Effects of Using Snoezelen as Multi-sensory Stimulation on Two Exceptional Students with Behavioral Problems and on Their Physiological Responses

• Main Authors: Ching-Yi Wu, 吳勁誼
• Other Authors: 江秋樺
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/eywh43

碩士 === 國立嘉義大學 === 特殊教育學系研究所 === 97 === This study aimed to investigate the effects of using Snoezelen as multi-sensory stimulation to improve the behavioral problems of one students with severe mental retardation and the other student with Tourette’s syndrome. This research adopted a single subject design—ABAB reversal design in which independent variable was the interventions of multi-sensory stimulation and the dependent variables were the distraction behavior frequency, stereotyped behavior frequency and the physiological measures of the subject. Throughout the eight-month period of the study, the subject participated in the package project. Besides, the blood pressures and the heart rates of the subject were separately measured at the beginning of each experiment, right after the intervention of the multi-sensory stimulation and at the end of each experiment. The whole process was monitored and recorded without the knowledge of the subject. The results of the research were summarized as follows. (1) The Multi-sensory stimulation reduced the distraction behavior of the two subjects. (2) The Multi-sensory stimulation decreased the stereotyped behavior of the subject with severe mental retardation. - iii - (3) During the intervention of Multi-sensory stimulation, the heart rates of the subjects decreased with the decrease of behavioral problems.