Journal of Sports and Motor Development and Learning
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The Effect of Games and Activities Based on Sher's Project on Fine and Gross Motor Skills in Slow-Paced Children

Document Type : Research Paper I Open Access I Released under CC BY-NC 4.0 license

Authors

Sogand Ghasemzadeh 1
Nayereh Naghdi 2
Gholam.Ali Afrooz 3

1 Assistant professor , facuity of psychology & education university of tehran .

2 MSc Student of Psychology of Exceptional Children, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

3 Distinguished professor dr. g. ali afrooz faculty of psychology and education university of tehran , president asian federation of word council for psychotherapy

https://doi.org/10.22059/jmlm.2017.222170.1191
Abstract
  The present study aimed at investigating the effect of games and activities based on Sher’s Project on slow-paced children’s fine and gross motor skills. The population of the study consisted of all slow-paced children aged between 6 and 8 in the city of Isfahan during the 2015-2016 academic year. The sample included 30 male slow-paced students selected by the convenience sampling method. Then, they were randomly divided into two groups: experimental (15 participants) and control (15 participants). To assess their fine and gross motor skills, the Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency (BOTMP) was employed. The experimental group was trained with games and activities based on Sher’s Project during 24 one-hour sessions, and the control group received no training. To analyze the data, SPSS-21 and MANCOVA were used. The results indicated that games and activities based on Sher’s Project affected gross motor skills (P=0.001) and fine motor skills (P=0.001) in slow-paced children. Accordingly, it can be inferred that games and activities based on Sher’s Project are appropriate to improve fine and gross motor skills in slow-paced children and can be used in educational and rehabilitation centers.

Keywords

fine motor skills
games and activities based on Sher's Project
gross motor skills
slow-paced children
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Journal of Sports and Motor Development and Learning
Volume 9, Issue 3 - Serial Number 3
Autumn 2017
Pages 445-456

  • Receive Date 07 December 2016
  • Revise Date 24 May 2017
  • Accept Date 27 May 2017

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