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Effect of Psycho-Rehabilitation on Perceptual-Motor Proficiency of Children with Down Syndrome

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Associate Professor of Motor Behavior, Urmia University

2 M.Sc. of Motor Behavior, Urmia University

Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of 20 sessions of Dohsa-hou on the motor proficiency in the children with Down syndrome. The research method was Quasi-experimental design and pretest-posttest with control group. For this purpose, twenty-four Down-Syndrome-infected children with the average age was 8.21 ± 3.19 were selected through convenience sampling in a rehabilitation center in the Iranian town of Javanroud as the participants and were randomly divided into ten equal experimental and control groups. The experimental group participated in Dohsa-hou intervention for 20 forty- five-minute sessions individually. After the intervention sessions posttest performed. To analyze the data the descriptive statistics and analysis of multivariate covariance were used. The results of covariance on the scales of perceptual-motor skills showed that significant difference between the subscales of balance, power, coordination, speed, accuracy, and reaction time testing in control and experimental groups. Considering that the impact of Dohsa-hou training on motor proficiency in children with Down syndrome was verified that seems designing and holding educational workshops and packages for training teachers, psychologists and social workers would be beneficial while working with the Down-Syndrome-infected children.

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Motor Behavior
Volume 10, Issue 32
Summer 2018
August 2018
Pages 113-128
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  • Receive Date: 18 September 2017
  • Revise Date: 17 November 2017
  • Accept Date: 04 December 2017
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