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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

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Design and Effectiveness of Motor Therapy on Reading Problems in Students with Learning Disabilities
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The aim of the researches to Design and Effectiveness of Motor Therapy on Reading Problems in Students with Learning Disabilities.The aim of the researches to Design and Effectiveness of Motor Therapy on Reading Problems in Students with Learning Disabilities. Statistics of current study include all students referring to Centers of Learning Disorder in Shiraz during the 2014 academic year. Subjects consisted of 30 students with learning disability volunteered to participate in this study. Screening Test of Dyslexia Diagnosis Shafii & et al was administered as the pretest and posttest for the students with learning disability. The students received 14 sessions of training for motor therapy. The research questions are analyzed through variance of repeated measurements. The results show that motor therapy lead to improvements in reading problems of students with learning disabilities.Keywords: Motor Therapy, Reading Problems, Learning Disabilities

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