فعالية برنامج تدريبي قائم على مهارات الوظائف التنفيذية في تحسين مهام نظرية العقل لدى الأطفال ذوي الإعاقة الفكرية البسيطة

Abstract EN

The recent study aimed to identify effectiveness of a training program based on executive functions skills in improving mind theory tasks among children with mild mental retardation.

the participation of the study consisted of (20) child with mild mental retardation between the ages of (9-12) year with an average age of (10.17) years and a standard deviation of (0.85) year, and average IQ was (50-70) divided into two groups.

experimental group which consisted of (10) children and control group which consisted of (10) children, author used: Stanford Bennyh scale fifth edition (translated by: Mahmoud Abu Nile, 2011) and mind-reading checklist for children with mild mental-retardation (prepared by: Suleiman Sulaiman, Ihab al-Beblawi, and Usama al-Nabarawi, 2016), the results of the study found that there are statistically significant differences between the mean ranks of experimental group in pre and post-test on mind- reading checklist for children with mild mental-retardation its sub-dimensions, the results also found that there are statistically significant differences between the mean ranks of experimental group and control group on mind-reading checklist for children with mild mental-retardation and its sub-dimensions.

while the results found that there are no statistically significant differences between the mean ranks of the experimental group in pre-test and follow-up test on mind-reading checklist for children with mild mental-retardation.