Experience of using 'Prognoz' EPD in special needs education
As a part of the work under the grant of the Russian Foundation for Humanities for research project No. 02-06-00488a/ts, a study was conducted with 'Prognoz' EPD system to research the impact of special educational process on children with developmental disabilities. The main goal of the project was to organize a health-protective educational process. The results were presented at a number of specialized conferences of various levels, and a series of articles and reports on this topic was also published.
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To determine the nature of the effect produced by individual elements of the special education process on organisms of children with intellectual disabilities, their health status was monitored using a number of automated instrumental diagnostic methods. It was assumed that such monitoring would make it possible to determine a set of indicators that have prognostic significance for assessing the dynamics of physical, mental, and intellectual development of special needs students. Based on this set of indicators, a multi-parametric criterion for the effectiveness of the special educational process was developed.
In particular, this translated to determining the level of physiological and psychological stress and identifying its seasonal dependence. A fairly extensive monitoring was carried out with measurements at the beginning and at the end of each academic term. In addition to the indicators obtained with the help of EPD, HRV indicators were considered and psychological testing was also carried out.
As a result, a certain pattern was discovered between the recorded physiological parameters and the level of academic load on a subject. The findings of the study provide a basis for differentiating students into groups depending on the reaction of their body to a given pedagogical method. An interesting feature is the persistently recorded deviations from the norm in indicators of the biologically active points, which are usually accociated with pericardial and cardiac acupuncture channels (ACs), in children with intellectual disabilities when compared to the results of measurements in healthy children. This is in good agreement with the known statistics on the greater prevalence of heart disease among people afflicted with such disorders.
