Objectives : the present study was designed to investigate children's motor skills and their neurological functions. Since children's primary behavioral response is of the motor type, and since motor skills start with reflexive activities and become more complex as the central nervous system develops and gradually relate to higher neurological centers, an investigation of children's motor dev...

Introduction & Objective: The aim of this research was to review the constitutional and other risk factors in children with Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Materials & Methods: Present research was a descriptive–comparison and subjects were 180 children with ADHD. 210 matched healthy children participated as a control group. Questionnaire was designed by the researcher...

Abstract Objectives: This study compared some cognitive activities of two groups of patients: those suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and those suffering from anxiety and depression. Method: 20 patients in each group were studied through semi-structured interviews, cognitive tests of learning, visual and verbal pairs associations, digit span, word fluency, learning digit, and Verbal...

This study aimed to compare social cognition aspects (affective theory of mind, cognitive theory of mind, and emotion recognition) in children with specific learning disorders, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and normal controls. In a causal-comparative study, 42 children with specific learning disorders, 43 children with ADHD, and 45 normal children were selected from primary ...

Learning disorder is a group of heterogeneous disorders that is manifested in major forms of learning and using abilities such as listening, writing and reasoning or mathematical calculations. Most learning disorder children have social and emotional problems too. Special attention should be given to the treatment of these children. One of the effective methods for the treatment of these child...

this exploratory study aimed to investigate a possible relationship between learners’ beliefs about language learning and one of their personality traits; that is,locus of control (loc). both variables, beliefs and locus of control, are assumed to influence the language learning process. the internal control index (ici) and the beliefs about language learning inventory (balli) were administered...