Efficacy of Cognitive-Motor Rehabilitation on the Reading Speed and Cognitive Flexibility of the Children with Disability in Reading Learning

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1 Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran.

2 Department of Psychology, Faculty of of Humanities, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran.

3 Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

The present study was conducted to investigate the efficacy of cognitive-motor rehabilitation on the reading speed and cognitive flexibility of the children with disability in reading learning. It was a quasi-experimental study with pretest, posttest and control group design. Follow-up period was administered during two months. The statistical population of the study included second- to fourth-grade children with reading learning disability in zone 6 of Tehran in academic year 2021-22. Thirty seven children with learning reading disability were selected through purposive sampling method and randomly accommodated into experimental and control groups. The experimental group received twelve cognitive-motor rehabilitation sessions during six weeks. The applied instruments in this study included Persian Reading Ability test, Tower of London Procedure. The collected data were analyzed via SPSS23 software through mixed ANOVA and follow-up tests. The results showed that cognitive-motor rehabilitation has significant effect on reading speed (p<0001) and cognitive flexibility (p<0001) of the children with reading learning disability. According to the results of the present study it can be concluded that cognitive-motor rehabilitation can be used an effective method to improve reading speed and cognitive flexibility of the children with reading learning disability through influencing cortex and applying purposeful cognitive-motor exercises.

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Journal of Applied Psychological Research

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Available Online from 24 June 2024

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History

  • Receive Date: 19 September 2022
  • Revise Date: 29 April 2023
  • Accept Date: 30 July 2023
  • First Publish Date: 24 June 2024
  • Publish Date: 24 June 2024

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