We have already known the significance of mainstreaming nursery: the same day nursery and living in the same place produces a good effect on both normally developmental children and handicapped children. In order to that the former and the latter will develop each other enough, we need the nursery program to form and encourage social interaction between both of them. The purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of the play program in which a target child moves to his favorite music. The program is given to them once a week. The target child was 4 years old and autistic, and often played alone. After we gave him and the other children play program, we watched and videotaped free play of him and them for an hour, once a month, about 15 times. Then we analyzed the social interaction between both of them. As a result, we found the interaction between the target and the other (especially 3 years old) children. We reason as follows: when the target child and normally developmental children perform the same program which is the target's favorite, these latter take interest in and get concerned with the former, so that more and more interaction is seen in the free play. In addition, we gave an empathy test using the story "An ugly duckling" to the children who were concerned with the target child and the children who were not, and we found the former exceeded the latter in empathy. We conclude that the children who have more contact with the target child will develop more compassion for other people by the experience.
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