Early Intervention To Orphans And Disabled Children Aged 0-3 Under Action Research Model

Orphans and disabled children are the most vulnerable groups and in great need of care and tenderness. Their perception, language comprehension and expression, movement, learning ability, interpersonal communication, social adaptation, perfect personality, and healthy psychological development are all affected. Early intervention is an organized and purposeful education and training activity providing rich and adequate stimulus and is applied to 0-5 years old (mainly below 3 years old) children that (may) deviate from normal development. Early intervention has great effect with less input and is of great significance to the improvement of population quality. In this study, orphans and disabled children will receive early intervention and we hope to help the children get out of the shadow of social abandonment, education abandonment and family abandonment, understand and participate in normal society and interpersonal communication, blend into collective life and receive education as soon as possible.We select nine Orphans and disabled children aged 0-3, who are from a temporary child welfare agency in Shanghai. Children aged 0-3 are at the most impressionable age and need most social care. In this study, we apply the model of Action Research. Researchers (postgraduates from East China Normal University) and practitioners (nurses, doctors from child welfare agency) work together with each other through action research model including planning, action, observation, reflection to implement early intervention with continuous modification and improvement. We implement early intervention to 9 orphans and disabled children, with gross motor, fine motor, language, cognitive and social development as the main content, with individual training, group instruction and group activities as main methods, with physiological indicators, developmental quotient, process evaluation and daily life evaluation as means of assessing the performance of early intervention.Besides, this study introduces one of the cases, including assessment before intervention, the plan and process of intervention, assessment after the intervention and reflection of the study. Through correcting the bad behaviors and moods of the child and making him take part in the individual training, group instruction and group activities, we find that social development, the ability of language understanding and expression, motor ability of the child has been improved to some extant.