the effect of traditional local games on development of gross motor skills in children with mental retardation

the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of traditional - local games on the development of gross motor skills of children with educable mental retardation. 30 educable mentally retarded children in welfare organization of marivan city (mea age 12.8 ±1.12 yr and iq 33.61±7.81) were studied with purposive sampling method. all children were pretested; then, samples were randomly divided into two groups: control and experimental. each group consisted of 8 boys and 7 girls. in gross motor skills, bruininks - oseretsky test of motor proficiency was used. traditional - local games were practiced by the experimental group during 32 sessions, each session 50-60 minutes for 4 days a week. the control group performed their daily routine. after 32 sessions of practice, both groups were post-tested. to study the research hypotheses, non-parametric wilcoxon and u mann whitney tests were used (spss16). the results showed a significant difference in posttest scores between the two groups (p