فعالية التدريب على بعض الوظائف التنفيذية في تحسين نظرية العقل و الاتجاه نحو الروضة لدى الأطفال المعرضين لخطر صعوبات التعلم

Abstract EN

The research aimed to investigate the effectiveness of training on some executive functions in improving the Theory of the Mind and the attitude toward kindergarten among children at risk of learning disabilities, the research sample consisted of (20) children from the second level children in kindergarten who were diagnosed as being at risk of learning disabilities and mean age was (5,54) with a standard deviation (.46), the sample was divided into an experimental group that included (10) children the mean age was (5,57) with a standard deviation (.45) and a control sample included (10) children with mean age (5,51) and standard deviation (.41), and the research tools included : Theory of Mind tasks battery, (Hutchins, et al., 2014) Arabization by (Researcher) , The Attitude toward Kindergarten Prepared by( Researcher), Training Program Prepared by (Researcher), Using tests of Wilcoxon’s and Mann- Whitney’s finding indicated statistically significant differences between the average rank scores in the pre and post measurements of the experimental group in the Theory of Mind and the attitude toward the kindergarten in favor of the post measurements, Statistically significant differences between average rank scores for the post measurements between experimental group and the control group in Theory of Mind and the attitude toward kindergarten in favor of the experimental group, and there wasn’t statistically significant differences between the mean rank score between post and the following up measurements of the experimental group in the Theory of Mind and the attitude towards kindergarten .