فاعلية برنامج قائم على مهارات الوظائف التنفيذية في تحسين الكفاءة اللغوية ومهام نظرية العقل لدى الأطفال ذوي الإعاقة العقلية بدولة الكويت

Abstract EN

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

participate in this study (19) child with mild mental retardation between the ages of (9-12) year with an average age of (10.45) years and a standard deviation of (0.82) year, and average IQ was (5570) with an average IQ of (62.26) and a standard deviation of (3.94) divided into two groups: experimental group which consisted of (9) children and control group which consisted of (10) children.

author used john raven's successive matrixes test for intelligence, translated by Ahmed Osman (1989), linguistic competence scale for children with mild mental-retardation (prepared by: Alaa alders, 2018) and mind-reading checklist for children with mild mental-retardation (prepared by: Suleiman Sulaiman, Ihab al-Beblawi, & Usama al-Nabarawi, 2016), the results of the study found that: there are statistically significant differences between the mean ranks of experimental group and control group on linguistic competence scale and mind theory tasks for children with mild mental- retardation and its sub-dimensions for experimental group, the results also found that there are statistically significant differences between the mean ranks of experimental group in pre and post-test on linguistic competence scale and mind theory tasks for children with mild mental- retardation its sub-dimensions for post-test, 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 linguistic competence scale and mind theory tasks for children with mild mental-retardation.