Investigation of efficacy of educational – psychologicial early Interventions for improving executive functions and attention of children with neuropsychological learnig disabilities

Abstract

The aim of the current research was to investigate the efficacy of educational-psychological early interventions for improving executive functions and attention of children with neuropsychological learning disabilities. In order to do this 40 children with neuropsychological learning disabilities were randomly selected from 6 year preschool children population of Isfahan city via random cluster sampling method and assigned to experimental and control groups (each group consisted of 20 children). Then the educational and psychological early intervention was given to the experimental group. The instruments were neuropsychological test of NEPSY, Wechsler Preschool Children Intelligent Scale and children with neuropsychological learning disabilities diagnosis test. Data was analyzed by multivariate analysis of covariance. findings indicate that educational psychological early interventions can improve executive functions and attention of children with neuropsychological learning disabilities.

Keywords

• neuropsychological learning disabilities
• executive functions
• attention
• early intervention
• NWPSY test