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Authors

1 MSc student, khorasgan azad islamic university

2 Sport psychology, Arak university, Arak, Iran

3 M.Sc, OTR. Department of Occupational Therapy, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, IRAN

Abstract

Children with intellectual disability experience many problems in their
everyday lives and educational issues. One of these important issues exists in
visual perception. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to examine the
effect of sport vision training on visual perception of children with
intellectual disability in Isfahan city. 30 children were selected from
educable students with intellectual disability (7-11 years old) as the sample
and were randomly assigned to two groups (each group 15 subjects):
experimental and control. Before the training, children with intellectual
disability underwent Wechsler IQ test and educable children entered the
study. Also, before the training, the TVPS - II visual perception pretest was
administered. Then, experimental group had their training for 8 weeks, 3
sessions per week and 45 minutes each session. In the final stage, TVPS - II
visual perception pretest was conducted. Based on the results of the
MANCOVA analysis (with the control of pretest scores) sport vision
training had an effect on the mean of all visual perception components
except for form constancy test in the posttest (P<0.05). The results of this
study showed that sport vision training can improve the visual perception of
children with intellectual disability. Therefore, it is suggested that sport
vision training is also used to treat and rehabilitate these children in the
treatment process.

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