The general purpose of this research is to study and analyze the effects of a period of regular exercise activities on the self-esteem of educable students suffering from metal retardation aging 9-15 in the city of Lordegan in academic year of 1389-1390. For this purpose 28 students were randomly selected from a group of 121 educable mentally retarded students. They were randomly divided into t...

Introduction: Mentally retarded children have physically less ability compared to their normal counterparts. Regarding the fact that psychomotor exercises may greatly improve such a condition, the present study aimed to investigate the impact of psychomotor exercises upon the static balance of mentally retarded students in North khorasan. Methods and Materials: In the current study, 16 mentall...

Abstract Background and purpose: The birth of a mentally retarded child affects various aspects of parents' lives. Psychological burden and cognitive inflexibility in mothers with children with mental disabilities cause several psychological problems. The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of psychological empowerment on psychological burden and cognitive flexibility of ...

within communicative, interactive, and learner-centered framework of language teaching and learning, students need to learn four skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing for their educational success. but of all the language skills, reading enjoys a paramount significance in so many second or foreign language academic contexts. in spite of its importance, language learners still have...

Abstract Background: Mentally retarded children are children who differ from normal children in at least one area of mental characteristics, sensory abilities, communication skills, social behavior, and physical characteristics. Objective: The aim of this study was to the effectiveness of Fordyce Happiness Education on resilience and psychological well-being of parents with mentally retarde...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of 6 weeks of core stability training on the balance of mentally retarded. Our subjects included 31 male mentally retarded students in two groups (control, 14 patients with a mean age of 11/07±3/02years, height 152±7/86cm) and (17experimental group with a mean age 11/23 ± 1/95years, height 147±7/07cm) and were A group of healthy students (15 ...

this study investigated the effects of planning on second-language written production with regard to task type. the participants were 75 iranian learners of english as a foreign language attending a private foreign language institution. they were asked to complete two different types of writing tasks (expository writing task and argumentative writing task) in different planned conditions (indiv...

Background: The mindfulness is the non-judgmental, unexplainable and current time-based awareness of experience which is in a person's attention span in a particular moment.  This method has produced positive effect on decreasing the stress and increasing mental health in mothers who have educable mentally retarded children. This study aims to investigate the impact of mindfulness training...

  Objectives : The present research was conducted to study the effect of sandplay therapy on social cognition development of educable mentally retarded children. Method: The present study was a pretest-posttest with control group. To measure the dependent variable social cognition, Kay Cognitive Diagnostic Test (KCDT) was used in both pretest and posttest sections. The sample was selected rando...