The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of Tetris game on the cognitive abilities of students with mental retardation. Especially, this study focused on the arrangement of figures and the task attention. To do this, 33 students with mental retardation in a middle school participated and were assigned to the two treatment group. The experimental group did the Tetris game three times a week for 4 weeks, but the control group didn't the Tetris game. The experimental group revealed more higher improvement than the control group in the arrangement of figures and the task attention. The Tetris game can be used as an educational program to improve the cognitive abilities of students with mental retardation.
This research examined the actual state of deaf students' use of Internet games by administering an Internet game addiction scale test to 201 deaf students from elementary, middle or high schools. The research findings indicated that middle and high school students were more likely to be left at home after school without their protector's presence than elementary school students. The average daily sleep hours of deaf students were similar to or fewer than those of general students, and the amount of their Internet access time and the one spent on Internet games were greater than that of non disabled students.As for the Internet user types, more male deaf students were categorized into risk user type than female deaf students, and the number of deaf risk user type students was significantly higher than that of non disabled risk user type students. The results suggest that the on-going national research on the actual state of Internet game users should include disabled students and that there is an urgent need to develop prevention programs of computer games overindulgence.
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