objective: the aim of the current study was to examine the effectiveness of barkley's parent training program, working memory training and the combination of these two interventions for children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd). methods: in this study, 36 participants with adhd (aged 6 to 12 years) were selected by convenience sampling. revision of the swanson, nolan and pel...

objectives: any form of disability is considered a critical factor having significant effects on a family. stress is the main result of such effects on parents. according to the classical procedure, the mothers play a major role as child caregiver, so they experience more stress than other members of the family. the goal of this study was to develop and assess the role of the de-stress training...

conclusions de-stress training program significantly decreased the stress of mothers with show paced children, and the training effect was persistent. results data presented a significant difference between the control and experiment groups. also, results did not show a significant difference between the post-test and follow up. it means that the effect of training was persistent. background ha...

background: previous studies have shown that interaural-time-difference (itd) training can improve localization ability. surprisingly little is, however, known about localization training vis-à-vis speech perception in noise based on interaural time difference in the envelope (itd env). we sought to investigate the reliability of an itd env-based training program in speech-in-noise perception a...

purpose the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of a combined program including sprint repetitions and drop jump training in the same session on male handball players. methods twenty-two male handball players aged more than 20 years were assigned into 2 groups: experimental group (n=11) and control group (n=11). selection was based on variables “axis” and “lines”, goalkeepers were n...

the aim of the current study was to investigate the effect of paaryaad training program on the development of motor skills of children aged between 6 and 8 who suffered from high function autism (hfa). for this purpose, 30 girls with hfa (mean age 7.1 ± 0.6 yr) were randomly selected from special schools of sanandaj city. then, according to the pretest scores, were assigned to control and exper...

objectives: to investigate the effectiveness of resiliency training in improving the mother-child relationship between mothers and their children with mental retardation.  methods: this study employed an experimental design (pre-test, post-test) with the control group. the statistical population consisted of 52 mothers and their educable and mentally retarded children (3-12 years old) who were ...