effectiveness of multimedia education program on the development of self-help and life skills in educable, mentally retarded students

objectives: the present study aims to investigate the effectiveness of multimedia education  for the development of self-help and life skills in educable, mentally retarded students.  methods: this research is an applied one in terms of objective. a pretest and posttest, with a control group, research design for the collection of data also makes it a quasi-experimental one. the statistical population included all educable, mentally retarded students in grades two and three of elementary schools in qasr-e shirin in the academic year 2014-2015. twelve students were selected through accessible sampling method and were randomly assigned into control and experimental groups.  results: the results showed that the implementation of multimedia training is effective in the development of self-help and life skills of educable, mentally retarded students.  discussion: the findings indicated that multimedia education can be used to develop self-help and life skills along with traditional methods.