The Effect of Selected Exercise Program on the Learning of Fundamental Motor Skills in Children with Intellectual Disabilities

Children with intellectual disabilities suffer from many problems in the cognitive and motor abilities areas. Despite this, the amount of motor activities was still clearly low and needs more research. Our aim in this study was to investigate the effect of a set designed exercise program on the learning of fundamental motor skills in children with intellectual disabilities. After diagnosing children as intellectual disabilities (ages ۱-۹) by experts, participants (۷ girls and ۱۴ boys) were divided into experimental (۷ girls and ۱۴ boys). The design of the study was semi-experimental including an independent variable, a pretest and a posttest. Having considered the research hypothesis using descriptive statistics and one-way analysis of covariance, the results of one-way analysis of covariance show a significant difference in posttest scores between the two groups. The results of the study show this our designed exercise program increases the score of fundamental motor skills and facilitates the learning of fundamental motor skills in children with intellectual disabilities, because it was designed scientifically verified criteria by us that can be effective in motor learning of fundamental motor skills.

کلیدواژه ها:

Children ، Intellectual disabilities ، Selected exercise program ، Fundamental motor skills ، Learning ، School