Mahboobeh Emami; Alireza Bahramy; Vali Shiri
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Children with intellectual disability experience many problems in theireveryday lives and educational issues. One of these important issues exists invisual perception. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to examine theeffect of sport vision training on visual perception of children withintellectual ...
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Children with intellectual disability experience many problems in theireveryday lives and educational issues. One of these important issues exists invisual perception. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to examine theeffect of sport vision training on visual perception of children withintellectual disability in Isfahan city. 30 children were selected fromeducable students with intellectual disability (7-11 years old) as the sampleand were randomly assigned to two groups (each group 15 subjects):experimental and control. Before the training, children with intellectualdisability underwent Wechsler IQ test and educable children entered thestudy. Also, before the training, the TVPS - II visual perception pretest wasadministered. Then, experimental group had their training for 8 weeks, 3sessions per week and 45 minutes each session. In the final stage, TVPS - IIvisual perception pretest was conducted. Based on the results of theMANCOVA analysis (with the control of pretest scores) sport visiontraining had an effect on the mean of all visual perception componentsexcept for form constancy test in the posttest (P<0.05). The results of thisstudy showed that sport vision training can improve the visual perception ofchildren with intellectual disability. Therefore, it is suggested that sportvision training is also used to treat and rehabilitate these children in thetreatment process.
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.
