Taḥqīqāt-i ̒Ulūm-i Raftārī (Apr 2024)
The Effectiveness of Therapeutic Intervention and Life Skills Training on the Social Adjustment of Students with Dictation Disorder
Abstract
Aim and Background: Students with learning disabilities are at a lower level in terms of emotional development and social adjustment compared to normal students. Therefore, the present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the effectiveness of therapeutic intervention and life skills training on social adjustment of students with dictation disorder. Methods and Materials: The current research was a semi-experiment with a pre-test-post-test design with a control group. The statistical population of this research included all the male and female students of the elementary third, fourth and fifth grades of the 3rd district of Tehran city in the academic year of 2021-2022 who were suffering from dictation disorder 20 students were selected using available sampling and randomly assigned to two experimental (10 people) and control (10 pepole) groups. The instrument of this study included Falah Chai's written test (1995), Wechsler intelligence scale for children fourth edition (1947), and Sinha and Singh adjustment questionnaire (1993). The experimental group received the training on life skills and treatment of dictation disorder during 8 sessions, but the control group did not receive any intervention. Analysis of multivariate covariance test was used to analyze the research data All statistical operations of the research were considered using SPSS version 24 software with a significance level of P<0.05. Findings: The results of the research showed that after controlling for the effect of the pre-test, the difference between the pre-test and post-test scores of the two groups was significant for the variables of social, emotional and academic adjustment, and the mean scores of the experimental group in the variables of social, emotional and academic adjustment were significantly higher than the control group (P<0.05). Conclusions: Therapeutic intervention and life skills training can be used to improve the social adjustment of students with dictation disorder.
