Comparing the effectiveness of sensorimotor games and neurofeedback on the active speech of children with attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder

Authors
zeinab fathian
samira vakili
keyvan mollanorozy
mahdi arabzadeh
Abstract
This study was conducted with the aim of comparing the effectiveness of sensory-motor games and neurofeedback on the working memory of children with attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder. This research is one of the types of semi-experimental studies in which subjects were selected from all 8-12-year-old children in Tehran with hyperactivity and were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. 40 subjects were placed in three groups of sensory-motor games, neurofeedback, a combined group, and a control group, and before and after the interventions, the revised Wechsler intelligence scale for children -4th version WISC-R- was used to measure working memory. The findings obtained from covariance analysis after meeting the defaults showed that the amount of working memory in sensori-motor, neurofeedback and combined games in the group and the control are significantly different after removing the effect of the pre-test. This result means that according to the mentioned results, the intervention of sensory-motor, neurofeedback and combined games has a significant effect on the amount of active memory. Also, based on the findings, the combined approach of sensory-motor games and neurofeedback on children's working memory is more effective than the two approaches of sensory-motor games and neurofeedback, and there is a significant difference between the two approaches of sensory-motor games and neurofeedback in their effectiveness on active memory. does not have.
Keywords
Sensory-motor games
Neurofeedback
active memory
hyperactivity
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