Abstract
A new behavior-conditioning tool, that we called the Net-relaxation-training method, was applied to the handicapped children in our dental clinic. Briefly, uncooperative disabled children were wrapped in the net type restrainer and given only painless preventive treatment. They seemed to be relaxed in the net after receiving such an experience at every visit, because they may feel comfortable under the net type restrainer and may believe that the dental clinic is a safe place. After making them relax, we begin to train them by using conventional behavior modification techniques such as ‘Tell-Show-Do'.To know the effect of the net and the way to relax, we asked mothers of children who were trained by this method the children's states of cooperation before this method was received and after it had been received it. Answers from 27 mentally handicapped children (MR child) who did not have the closed tendency and 63 closed character handicapped child (AUT child) who had an intellectual disability was obtained. The result was shown below.1.The net and the way to relax remarkably improved the AUT child's cooperation.2.The change that the AUT child cooperated had a significant difference in statistics (dangerous rate 1%) and there was no significant difference in the MR child.3.The net and the way to relax seemed to be an effective action adjustment method for the closed character handicapped child who had an intellectual disability.
