Problems of Nutritional Education for Children with Mild Mental Retardation : The Acquisition of Life Skills in Nutritional Education

Abstract

In order to examine the possibility of the introduction of life skill education to nutritional education, in this study we investigated the present situation of life skill education for children with light mental retardation with the aim of finding solutions to the problems involved in the situation. As a result, it was found that the necessity of nutritional education was not recognized, and its methodology was not established, for children with mild mental retardation. Now that integrated education has been promoted, it is an urgent problem to find a way to guarantee children basic education in how to arrange a well-balanced diet.