2023 Volume 60 Issue 2 Pages 47-59
It has been suggested that coordination training and cognitive training is contribute to improvement of physical and cognitive function in children with developmental issues, and there is growing interest in these training in the juvenile correctional field. In this study, we experimentally examined the effectiveness of these training in physical and cognitive functions from neuroscience perspective. Although participants were students in a juvenile training school, it was difficult to control the group and treatment environment due to the proper operation of the juvenile training school. Because of differences in the proportion of correctional education course and categorical methods between subjects (n＝7) who were determined to need training and non-subjects (n＝7) who were not determined to need training, one-group pretest-posttest design was used for each of the subjects and non-subjects. The subjects were conducted about 15 times, and the subjects and non- subjects took part in pre- and post-testing. The subjects demonstrated significant changes in visual motor-based physical functions and perceptual organization-based cognitive functions. Because we were forced to use a research design with low internal validity in this study, the causal relationship between these training and the subject’ test results remain unclear. Follow-up studies with a refined research design are desirable.
