Mohammad Aghayinejad; Maryam Chorami; Ahmad Ghaznfari; Tayebeh Sharifi
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Behavioral and emotional problems are one of the most common psychological problems in childhood and adolescence. Evidence suggests that behavioral problems are more prevalent among intellectual disability children than normal children. Therefore, the present study aimed to determine the effectiveness ...
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Behavioral and emotional problems are one of the most common psychological problems in childhood and adolescence. Evidence suggests that behavioral problems are more prevalent among intellectual disability children than normal children. Therefore, the present study aimed to determine the effectiveness of a parent-centered intervention based on localized play therapy on behavioral problems of 5-7 years old intellectual disability children. This study was experimental with pretest-posttest design and follow-up with control group. The statistical population consisted of 128 educable intellectual disability children who were educated in special centers in Lordegan in 1397. Thirty people were selected randomly and assigned to two groups of 15 (experimental and control). Rutter Behavioral Problems Questionnaire was administered to two groups as pre-test. Then, the experimental group's parents received a 12-session localized game therapy intervention and the parents of the control group did not receive the intervention. At the end of the intervention period and 3 months later, Rutter's Behavioral Problems Test was again administered to the two groups as posttest and follow up, respectively. Data were analyzed using ANOVA with repeated measures. Results showed that there was a statistically significant difference between the performance of the two experimental and control groups in the rate of behavioral problems (p <0.001). Therefore, it can be concluded that the localized play therapy intervention program has been effective in reducing the behavioral problems of intellectual disability children and the survival of the intervention program remained after 3 month.
Janbaba Aghayinejad; Salar Faramarzi; Mohamad Karimi
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Psychological findings show that a lower IQ score than the normal level is notenough to recognize someone as mentally retarded. In addition they have visibleand specific difficulties in their adaptive behaviors. Research on adaptivebehaviors is useful for those with specific needs and if mentally retarded ...
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Psychological findings show that a lower IQ score than the normal level is notenough to recognize someone as mentally retarded. In addition they have visibleand specific difficulties in their adaptive behaviors. Research on adaptivebehaviors is useful for those with specific needs and if mentally retarded childrenwant to adapt themselves to social life, they should improve their adaptivebehaviors. The current study aimed at determining the effect of a period of regularexercise activity on the improvement of adaptive behavior in 9-15-year-oldeducable mentally retarded students in Lordegan city. From 156 educable mentallyretarded students, 28 students were selected randomly and divided into two groupsof experimental (7 boys and 7 girls) and control (7 boys and 7 girls). Vinlandadaptive behavior Scale (1965) was used as the pretest. Then, the experimentalgroup took part in a period of exercise activity as an intervention program for 2months, 3 sessions every week, 45 minutes per session. The data were analyzed bycovariance using SPSS software (P˂0.05). The results showed a significantdifference between the performance of the two groups in adaptive behavior andsub-skills of socialization, communication, locomotion, dressing self-help, generalself-help and eating self-help (P<0.05) while there was no significant difference insub-skills of occupation and self-direction which showed that a period of regularexercise activity had an effect on the improvement of some sub-skills of adaptivebehavior in experimental group. This approach can be used in rehabilitation andinstruction of mentally retarded children.
Janbaba Aghaeinejad; Salar Faramarzi; Ahmad Abedi
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The current study aimed to examine the effect of a period of regular exercise onthe aggression of educable mentally retarded students aged between 9 and 15 inLordegan city. For this purpose, 28 students were selected randomly and dividedinto two groups: 7 boys and 7 girls in experimental group and 7 ...
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The current study aimed to examine the effect of a period of regular exercise onthe aggression of educable mentally retarded students aged between 9 and 15 inLordegan city. For this purpose, 28 students were selected randomly and dividedinto two groups: 7 boys and 7 girls in experimental group and 7 boys and 7 girls incontrol group. Ghezelseflu et al. (1387) aggression scale was used as a pretest forboth groups. A period of exercise program as an intervention program was run for2 months, every week, 3 sessions (45 minutes) per week on the experimental group.After intervention program, aggression scale was run again. The data wereanalyzed by covariance using spss software. The results showed that a significantdifference between control and experimental groups' performance (P<0.001) inaggression which showed that a period of exercise program reduced theaggression and its subscales in the experimental group. It was concluded thatregular exercise program reduced the aggression of educable mentally retardedstudents.
