برنامج تدريبي قائم على استراتيجية التلعيب لتحسين الوظائف التنفيذية لدى الأطفال ذوي الإعاقة الفكرية وأثره على التوافق النفسي لديهم

Abstract EN

The current research aimed at identifying the effectiveness of a program based on the strategy of gamification to develop some executive functions as: flexibility / shifting, working memory, planning, self-control, behavior exhibition and organization and its impact on psychological adjustment of children with mild intellectual disability.

the research aimed as well at identifying the relation between executive functions and psychological adjustment for the sample children.

following tools were administered: WISC-V (translation: Abd el-Rakip elBehiry, 2017), executive functions observation card (developed by both researchers), tasks and activities of executive functions (developed by both researchers) and psychological adjustment scale for children with mild intellectual disability (developed by researchers) over a sample of (68) children with mild intellectual disability.

the children sample was divided into both (34) experimental and (34) control groups.

results indicated statistical significant differences among mean scores of the experimental group of the pre and post testing of research tools favoring post testing.

also, results showed statistical significant differences among mean scores of both experimental and control groups favoring the experimental group, and no statistical difference was found between mean scores of the post and follow up tests of the experimental group which in turn indicated the effectiveness of the program in improving their psychological adjustment.

the research ended with some recommendations as the importance of implementing activities supporting gamification that enhance executive functions and psychological adjustment within preschool curriculum which positively affects children’s personalities.

also, training regular and special education teachers to use strategies that enhance these functions and improving them through new strategies as gamification.