Nasim Sivoshifar; Parisa Tajalli; Mohammadmahdi Sharyat Bagheri
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This study aims to compare the effect of Dovson-Guare program and Metacognitive processes education on executive functioning (attention, working memory, and behavioral inhibition) of students with dyslexia. Pre-test, Post-test, and control group were used for research method. A total of 45 primary students ...
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This study aims to compare the effect of Dovson-Guare program and Metacognitive processes education on executive functioning (attention, working memory, and behavioral inhibition) of students with dyslexia. Pre-test, Post-test, and control group were used for research method. A total of 45 primary students with reading learning disorder participated in this program at first half of school year (2018-2019), which they were from Ardabil city. They were divided into two experimental (each of them have 15 participants) and one control (15 participants) groups. One of the experimental group received Dovson-Guare program at 1 hour education about 8 sessions and the other one received Metacognitive processes education at 60-70 seconds about 10 sessions. Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Functioning questionnaire (BRIEF) was used for data collection. (Multivariate analysis of Covariance) (MANCOVA) and Benofreni test with SPSS20 were used for data analysis. The findings showed that both programs have significant differences on improvements of attention, working memory, and behavioral inhibition of students with reading learning disorder (p˃0.01). Moreover the results of Benofreni test showed that there is no significant effect between groups on each of the variables (attention, working memory, and behavioral inhibition) (p˃ 0.05). Therefore the results provided important allusions about educational and consulting services as some cures for students with dyslexia.
Negin Motamed Yeganeh; Gholam Ali Afrooz; Mohsen Shokoohi Yekta; Rachel Weber
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Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder is one of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders in childhood. These children are exposed to a lot of problems in the executive functions areas. The issue of neuroplasticity reveals the importance of neuropsychological interventions, since interruptions ...
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Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder is one of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders in childhood. These children are exposed to a lot of problems in the executive functions areas. The issue of neuroplasticity reveals the importance of neuropsychological interventions, since interruptions in early childhood executive functions may lead to further functional impairment. Therefore, this study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the designed intervention program on the Executive functions of children with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. The research method was quasi-experimental with a pretest-posttest-follow up design with the control group. The statistical population of the present study included all the boys and girls students 7-10 years old in Tehran. Among eligible students, 40 individuals along with their mothers were selected using the non-random purposive sampling method and randomly divided into the two groups. The experimental group (N=20) were trained by twelve sessions of Metacognitive Executive Functioning intervention program and the control group (N=20) remained on the waiting list. Data were collected by Clinical interview checklist, the Tehran Stanford-Binet intelligence test and Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Functions. The results indicated a significant effect of Family-based Neuropsychological program on increasing the Executive Functions of children with Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder (p<0.05). This treatment can be a potentially promising intervention for young children with ADHD.