中華心理衛生協會

This study was undertaken to investigate the relationship between high risk factors and minimal brain dysfunction in learning disabled children from July 1982 to August 1984. The study subjects were consisted of 68 first and second graders of Taipei City Jiann-Tarn Primary School, 51 boys and 17 girls. These children have minimal brain dysfunction with IQ above 85 and academic achievement level below the individual's schooling by one schoolyear.
The findings of this study showed high correlation between high-risk factors, such as sickness or complication during mother pregnancy; ways of delivery: oxygen deficiency at birth; neonatal jaundice; head injury; convulsion in childhood. and minimal brain dysfunction, such as vestibular dysfunction, proprioceptive dysfunction, tactile dysfunction, poor form and space perception, poor ocular and postural mechanism, hemispherical dysfunction, poor lateralization, choreoathetosis. The incidence of learning disabled is higher among boys than among girls: three to one.
The findings revealed that the individual activity level before 1 year old as well as parent's education level highly correlated with higher level of sensory integration function, rather than basic sensory integration function which correlated with paranatal risk factors. The findings support the notion that a significant correlation between high-risk factors and minimal brain dysfunction in learning disabled children.