초록

Objectives :The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of treatment with scalp acupunctures for children with learning disorders.

Methods :For this study, we evaluated Korea standard progressive matrices test (K-SPM) on 24 children
with learning disorders who visited Korean medical center neuropsychiatry outpatient clinic from July 2012 to January 2013.
Scalp acupuncture, cognitive enhancement therapy and speech-language therapy were applied.
All children were treated 2 times a week for 4 months and we compared K-SPM test scores before treatment and 30 times after the treatment.

Results :
1) After the treatment, K-SPM test scores have increased significantly (p＜0.05) and the number of children in grade 5 (＜5%) have decreased from 14 to 6.
2) Comparing K-SPM test scores between two groups: one with medical history and the other without medical history,
the scores in both groups have increased significantly (p＜0.05).
3) We also divided the children into two groups according to age: under the age of 13 and over the age of 13, and compared K-SPM test scores.
Although the scores in both groups have increased respectively,
it is the scores of the former group (under the age of 13) that have increased significantly (p＜0.05).

Conclusions :The treatments with scalp acupunctures were shown to be an effective intervention when improving K-SPM test scores of children with learning disorders.

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