Investigating the effectiveness of teaching verbal self-teaching strategies on social adaptation and visual motor coordination of students with learning disabilities

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 PhD student in Educational Psychology, Department of Psychology, Ardabil Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ardabil, Iran.

2 Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardabil, Iran.

3 Assistant Professor, Islamic Azad University, Department of Psychology, Ardabil Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ardabil, Iran.

10.22098/jld.2023.13578.2120

Abstract

Objective: The purpose of the present research was to investigate the effectiveness of teaching self-education strategies on social adaptation and visual motor coordination of students with learning disabilities.
Methods: In terms of the purpose, the current research was applied research and in terms of method, it was a semi-experimental study with a pre-test, post-test design with a control group. The research population consisted of all students with learning disabilities in Tehran in 2021-2022. Thirty people were selected by connivance sampling method and randomly were assigned into two experimental (15 people) and control (15 people) groups. The tools of this research included Sinha and Singh's compatibility questionnaire (1993) and visual motor coordination (1950). The experimental group received the protocol of self-education strategies during 6 sessions of 60 minutes, but the control group did not receive any intervention. Data analysis was done through mixed variance analysis (with repeated measurement) in SPSS version 26 software.
Results: The findings showed that there was a significant difference between the scores of social adaptation and visual motor coordination in the three stages of pre-test, post-test and follow-up by considering different experimental and control groups (P>0.05).
Conclusion: According to the results, it can be said that teaching self-education strategies can be effective on social adaptation and visual-motor coordination of students with learning disabilities and can be used as a method to improve social adaptation and visual-motor coordination of students. 

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Journal of Learning Disabilities

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript
Available Online from 20 February 2024

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