roghayeh bahrami; hamid alizade; farangis kazemi
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of psycho-motor exercises on the improvement of handwriting of elementary students. Handwriting problems can be due to factors such as inappropriate writing, inappropriate writing to write or inappropriate physical writing during writing, poor visual-motor ...
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of psycho-motor exercises on the improvement of handwriting of elementary students. Handwriting problems can be due to factors such as inappropriate writing, inappropriate writing to write or inappropriate physical writing during writing, poor visual-motor coordination, difficulty in motor planning, and fine movement control. To reduce the handwriting problems of elementary school students, one can learn how to write the right instruction (how to get the pencil right, how to put paper on the table when writing, how to sit right while writing), enhancing fine fingers, eye and hand coordination, Strengthening self-esteem, raising attention and concentration, enhancing visual sequence, training the correct form of letters on the pattern, and exercising for correcting coarse-grained and fine-tuning. In this research, the single-subject design was used. The study population consisted of elementary students in Tehran province in the academic year of 96- 1395 who were selected by a researcher-made log book in terms of handwriting problems and trained for 10 sessions. Three data were used to analyze the data, including the base line, during training, and follow-up steps. Each student's score in the base line test, during training, and follow-up is displayed in the form of charts and tables. Based on the findings, it can be concluded that cognitive-motor exercises can be effective in improving the student's handwriting.
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Having a child with Autistic Disorder can lead to experience unpleasant emotions in their parents. Therefore, This study aims to determine the effectiveness of reality therapy training to increase responsibility and happiness in the mothers of children with Autism disorder. This research was of a semi-experimental ...
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Having a child with Autistic Disorder can lead to experience unpleasant emotions in their parents. Therefore, This study aims to determine the effectiveness of reality therapy training to increase responsibility and happiness in the mothers of children with Autism disorder. This research was of a semi-experimental with pre-test and post-test and control group. By applying the available sampling, 31 mothers of children with Autism were selected and assigned randomly as experimental and control groups having 15 and 16 people respectively. The experimental group received group reality therapy training for seven treatment sessions (90 minutes for each session), while the control group was not exposed to any intervention. The data were collected using happiness questionnaire (Argyl) and responsibility (Gaff). The results of multivariate analysis indicated that there is significantly difference in scores of two groups in happiness and responsibility. thus, the group reality therapy training allows for a increase in the responsibility and happiness among mothers of the experimental group. According to the results obtained, group reality therapy training can be useful and applicable as the psychological therapeutic interventions for increasing happiness as well as responsibility in the mothers of children with Autism.
masoumeh imani; hamid alizadeh; farangis kazemi; bagher ghobari bonab
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Objective: The aim of this study was Developing training programs based on Direct Instruction and evaluation of its effectiveness on solving math problem in students with Learning Disorders. Methods: To fulfill the stated goal five students who were studying in fifth grade in one of primary school in ...
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Objective: The aim of this study was Developing training programs based on Direct Instruction and evaluation of its effectiveness on solving math problem in students with Learning Disorders. Methods: To fulfill the stated goal five students who were studying in fifth grade in one of primary school in karaj, selected as subjects and the following instruments were administered on them: questionnaire of diagnosis for learning disability(sadeghi & alizadeh, 2016), test of mathematical problem solving which was developed and validated by researcher and personal records of participants. Data were collected by using a single subject research design during baseline and intervention phases. After collecting the data on baseline conditions, a DI program based on the content of the fourth grade math book in elementary school was designed and implemented on all five students and every student was instructed on problem solving based DI program between 7 to 13 sessions lasted for 45- 60 minuets. Results: Comparing students during baseline and intervention phases showed that Direct Instruction program was effective on improving mathematics problem solving skills in five students. All five students were reached the criterion level that was established in advance. Conclusion: It is concluded that DI is effective on improvement of mathematics problem solving skills and it can be used in related interventions.
asgar chubdari
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The present study has been carried out to explore the effectiveness of reality therapy on the oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) symptom reduction among the students of the fifth and sixth grade in the city Tehran. The methodology has been of a quasi-experimental nature with a pretest posttest design ...
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The present study has been carried out to explore the effectiveness of reality therapy on the oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) symptom reduction among the students of the fifth and sixth grade in the city Tehran. The methodology has been of a quasi-experimental nature with a pretest posttest design and a control group. The statistical population has been composed of the male students of the fifth and sixth grade of the city Tehran in the academic year 1393-1394 and sampling was carried out by the multistage cluster random one. After the Children Symptom Inventory 4 (CSI-4) had been filled in by the teachers, 30 students with the points higher than the cut-off point in CSI-4 were selected and randomly assigned to the experimental and control group. The former group received 10 reality therapy sessions each for 90 minutes after which a posttest was given to them. To analyze the statistical data, a covariance method was applied as a result of which a meaningful reduction (p>0.001) was observed in the posttest intensity of ODD symptoms for the experimental group in comparison to the control one. Given the findings of the study, reality therapy is believed to contribute to the reduction of ODD symptoms among the students, rendering it as an effective intervention method.
akram hodapoor; parviz sharifidaramadi; farangis kazemi
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The purpose of present study was to investigate the effectiveness attribution style’s change on depression rate decrease, of adolescent blind girls. This study was carried out on experimental basis in pre-test, post-test design with control group. For this purpose, using the available sampling ...
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The purpose of present study was to investigate the effectiveness attribution style’s change on depression rate decrease, of adolescent blind girls. This study was carried out on experimental basis in pre-test, post-test design with control group. For this purpose, using the available sampling method, 30 of the depressed blind girls were selected and randomly substituted into two test and control groups, they were studying in secondary and high school stages of Tehran ‘Narjes blind school’ in the academic year of 2011-2012 and were placed in negative state/situations of internal, stable and general attribution style. Subjects of the experimental group were placed under attribution style change program’s educational course in ten, 45 minutes sessions in group form; however the control group did not receive any kind of education in this regard. The research data collected by ‘adolescence and children depression test’ as well as by the questionnaire of ‘adolescent and children attribution style’ and analyzed using the Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) test and the Multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA) test. The obtained results indicated that, the attribution style change of internal, stable and general to external, unstable and specific have significant effect on reducing of depression rate (p < 0/0001). This can be concluded, thus, that the attribution style change was effective in depression rate decrease of blinds girl’s adolescents.
nastaran seiedesmseeli ghomi; farangis kazemi; shahla pezeshk
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Thepurpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of stress reductionprogram training based onmindfulness on stress levels of mothers withintellectually disabled children. Research method was quasi-experimental designwith pretest-posttest and control group. The statistical population of thisstudy ...
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Thepurpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of stress reductionprogram training based onmindfulness on stress levels of mothers withintellectually disabled children. Research method was quasi-experimental designwith pretest-posttest and control group. The statistical population of thisstudy was all the mothers of intellectually disabled preschool children ofShohadaSchool in the city of Marlikin year 2012-2013.Among these mothers, 24mothers whose stress scores were one standard deviation above the mean wereselected using simple random sampling and they were assigned randomly intoexperimental (12) and control (12) groups. The experimental group received 8sessions of stress reduction program training based on mindfulness. To collectdata,the 52-item Frederick Stress Resources Questionnaire (QRS-F) was used.Data were analyzed by ANCOVA statistical method. The results showed that theresearch hypothesis has been approved and the mothers in the experimental grouphad significantly lower stress than the mothers in the control group inposttest. It can be concluded that stress reduction program training based onmindfulness has a significant impact on reducing stress in mothers withintellectually disabled children.
neda akrami; Farangis Kazemi; hamid alizade
Volume 4, Issue 16 , September 2014, , Pages 21-36
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The purpose of this research was conducting a comparison of achievement motivation rate in students with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), consumers and non-consumers of Ritalin, as well as normal students. in this causal-comparative research, the samples were recruited from the ...
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The purpose of this research was conducting a comparison of achievement motivation rate in students with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), consumers and non-consumers of Ritalin, as well as normal students. in this causal-comparative research, the samples were recruited from the students who were studying in the 5th and 6th grades of elementary public schools in district 8 of Tehran. These students were chosen based on the cluster sampling method and they were divided into three different groups. The Hermans’s Achievement Motivation Questionnaire was applied, and the results were analyzed by ANOVA. The results indicated that there were significant differences in the achievement motivation rate among these three groups. It was revealed that the normal students had the most achievement motivation rate. The students with ADHD who took Ritalin had a higher achievement motivation level than those with ADHD who did not take Ritalin. It can be inferred that consuming Ritalin can lead to an increase in theachievement motivation in the students with ADHD.
sedighe sijani; janet hashemi azar; farangis kazemi
Volume 4, Issue 16 , September 2014, , Pages 37-55
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The purpose of this research was to investigate the comparative study of the effectiveness of social stories with humanistic and inanimate content on participation and cooperation of children with Asperger's syndrome (AS). The method of this research was single subject design (AB). The statistical population ...
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The purpose of this research was to investigate the comparative study of the effectiveness of social stories with humanistic and inanimate content on participation and cooperation of children with Asperger's syndrome (AS). The method of this research was single subject design (AB). The statistical population included all the children with AS in Tehran who were selected through accessible simple sampling. Then 4 children with high-functioning autism were chosen. The research tools included the Social Skill Questionnaire (SSRS) and social stories. Using the SSRS, the data and pretest and posttest scores were calculated. The participants’ progress was determined with the progress percentage formula. The results revealed that both social story interventions with humanistic and inanimate content were effective. However, social stories with inanimate content were more effective than those with humanistic content that can have roots in neurological aspects and the personalities of autistic children. It is suggested that social stories with inanimate content can be used in teaching/educating autistic children.