the relationship between motor skills and other aspects of personality, such as self-concept, social and emotional behavior, proposes the necessity of working on motor skills and activities. investigation of the social abilities seems beneficial for whom with the special needs. the current study investigated the influence of yoga rhythmic movements on social interactions of children with mental...

the aim of the present study was to explore the relationship between media literacy and social skills among citizens in isfahan. to this end, a descriptive-correlation methodology was employed. the population under study consisted of all citizens living in isfahan who were reported to be 1796967 persons in 2013. using cochran formula, 384 persons were selected by stratified sampling and were in...

Access to psychiatric care for children and adolescents is limited outside of urban areas. Telepsychiatry provides one mechanism to bring needed services to youth. This investigation examines whether telepsychiatry could be successful in providing needed services. Using interactive video teleconferencing at 384 kilobits per second, psychiatrists based at a regional childrens hospital provided c...

The Coverage of Social Skills in 6th Grade’s Social Studies Text M. Khaademi, Ph.D. M. Mohammadi, Ph.D. R. Naaseri Jahromi S. Mansoori Considering the general approach in the national curriculum emphasizing both nature and nurture, the 6th grade’s social studies curriculum aims at psycho-social development of both children and adolescents. To identify the freq...

The scarf is a less used tool in the methodology of teaching folk dances. This object, however, had crucial role both Hungarian dance tradition and way life peasants. paper presents traditional appearances dances its usage’s symbolic semantic layers with special focus on wedding pair-choosing has privileged these playful pair-swapping games, one hand as realisation improvisation, other means cr...

Virtual humans, with realistic behaviors and increasingly humanlike social skills, evoke in users a range of social behaviors normally only seen in human face-to-face interactions. One of the key challenges in creating such virtual humans is giving them human-like conversational skills. Traditional conversational virtual humans usually make turn-taking decisions depending on explicit cues, such...

aim and background: this study investigated the effectiveness of group play on social skills of female preschool children (6-7 years old).   methods and materials: in this semi-experimental study, 20 female 6-7 year-old children were randomly selected and assigned to intervention and control groups (n = 10 in each). the intervention group participated 12 sessions of group play. all children wer...

objective: the present study was carried out to study the relationship between sensation seeking and social skills in two groups of school age patients down-syndrome (ds) and autism disorder (ds).  methods: this is a descriptive-analytic and correlation study in which all participants were of primary school age (10 to 13 years) with down-syndrome and autism disorder of autism spectrum disorder ...

Few evidence-based social interventions exist for young adults with high-functioning autism, many of whom encounter significant challenges during the transition into adulthood. The current study investigated the feasibility of an engaging Virtual Reality Social Cognition Training intervention focused on enhancing social skills, social cognition, and social functioning. Eight young adults diagno...

Previous research has investigated age differences in complex social perception tasks such as theory of mind and emotion recognition, with predominant findings of age-related declines. The present study investigated whether there are also age-related changes in basic aspects of social perception. Individuals' ability both to detect subtle differences in eye-gaze direction (e.g., where someone i...