Effect of active & inactive cognitive training and multi-sensory method on reminding and maintaining the strategies in children with mental special needs
Subject Areas : Research in Curriculum Planning
1 - مربی گروه روان شناسی، واحد اندیمشک، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، اندیمشک، ایران
Keywords: Cognitive strategies, reminding, Fernald multi-sensory method,
Abstract :
The recent study was done with the purpose of the effect of (active, inactive) training and multi-sensory method on reminding and maintaining the strategies in the children with mental special needs. The population of this Quasi-experimental study is included 200 fourth-grade male students in Ahvaz special schools which 60 students were selected in three experimental groups and a control group by using the cluster random sampling and simple random sampling. The research instruments were picture cards test with Yousefi Loya (1999) and Borkowski’s (1983) research pattern. The educational intervention was done in the experimental groups during twelve sessions. The data analyzing was done by using descriptive statistics, one-way analysis of variance (one-way ANOVA), and Tukey's HSD Test, and also harmonic mean test. The findings showed that active, inactive cognitive strategies and the active- multi sensory method improved reminding in children with mental special needs and was stable after a week in three experimental groups to compare with control group. But in comparing experimental groups, there was no difference between active and active- multi sensory method in remaining test, however there was a meaningful difference between active- multi sensory and inactive groups. Also no differences were observed between three groups in maintaining test.
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