Compression of Cognitive Flexibility and Adjustment of Students with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) and Typically Developing Students

Autor: Hasan Sadeghi, Abbas Abolghasemi, Nader Hajloo
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2012
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Zdroj: Iranian Rehabilitation Journal, Vol 10, Iss 2, Pp 43-49 (2012)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1735-3602
1735-3610
Popis: Objectives: The aim of this research is to compare cognitive flexibility and adjustment between two groups of students with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) and typically developing students. Methods: For this purpose, 50 students with DCD and 50 typically developing students were chosen among 12 primary schools. The Developmental Coordination Disorder Questionnaire (DCD-Q), Adjustment Inventory for School Students (AISS) and Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) were used to measure the research variables. Results: The results of the multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) showed that the mean score of cognitive flexibility and emotional, educational and social adjustment is significantly higher in the students with developmental coordination disorder (P
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