The Effectiveness of Neurofeedback Therapy on the Performance of Primary School Students with Learning Disability within Wechsler Intelligent Test for children
Subject Areas : Educationalmaryam azadi 1 , davood taghvayi 2 , shima chehreyi 3
1 - کارشناس ارشد روانشناسی دانشگاه آزاد اراک، ایران
2 - عضو هیأت علمی دانشگاه آزاد اراک، ایران
3 - عضو هیأت علمی دانشگاه آزاد اراک، ایران
Keywords: Wechsler Intelligence Test for Children, neurofeedback, learning disability, Elementary School Students,
Abstract :
The purpose of this research was to determine the effectiveness of neurofeedback therapy on the performance of the elementary school students with learning disabilities within Wechsler Intelligence Test for Children. This research was a quasi-experimental study with pretest-posttest design. The statistical population was all the students with learning disability studying in the first to fifth grade of primary schools and referred to counseling and treatment centers in Isfahan in 2014. Among them,15 students were selected through available sampling method. To collect data, the neurofeedback device and Wechsler Intelligence Test For Children (Form 4) were used. Students received 20 sessions of 45-minute neurofeedback treatment for 7-10 weeks. They responded to Wechsler Intelligent Test for children before and after the treatment as pre-test and post-test. The data were analyzed by dependent t-test. The results suggested that there was a significant relationship between the pre-test and post-test scores obtained from all the scales (P<0.05). Therefore it can be concluded that the neurofeedback therapy was effective in improving the performance of children with learning disability in Wechsler Intelligent Test for children.
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