In collaboration with Payame Noor University and Iran Neuropsychology Association

Document Type : Original article

Authors

1 PhD student in psychology, Lorestan University, Khoram Abad, Iran.

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Lorestan University, Khoram Abad, Iran.

Abstract

Introduction: The weakness of visual perception skills, is one of the causes of specific learning disability. Cognitive rehabilitation, and cognitive - behavioral play therapy, neurofeedback intervention training common in people with learning disability is special. The aim of this study was to compare the effect of cognitive rehabilitation, cognitive - behavioral play therapy, neurofeedback and on visual - motor perception in primary school students with specific learning disability. Method: This study was quasi-experimental with pretest-posttest control group. The study population consisted of all elementary school students, who with diagnosis of learning disabilities in learning centers in Tabriz 2016-2017 had received the interventions were necessary. A sample of the target population purposive sampling, 60 students were selected and using randomly into three experimental groups and one control group (n = 15 per group) were replaced. In all four groups of visual perception - motor Bender-Gestalt as pre-completion and after 20 sessions of cognitive rehabilitation, 20 neurofeedback sessions and 8 sessions of cognitive - behavioral play therapy re-test was performed for each of the four groups. Data using descriptive statistics such as mean and standard deviation and inferential statistics such as Multivariate regression analysis and analysis of variance Mixed were analyzed software SPSS.20. Findings: The results of the multivariate regression analysis showed that cognitive rehabilitation training, neurofeedback and cognitive - behavioral play therapy on visual perception - motor elementary students with specific learning disorder, affects (PConclusion: It seems that the use of cognitive rehabilitation training, neurofeedback and cognitive - behavioral play therapy shared equally in improved visual perception - motor, elementary students with learning disabilities in particular, can be used.

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