The Effectiveness of Training to Strengthen Visual Memory on The Reading and Writing Skills of Mentally Retarded Students

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1 Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran

2 Master of Educational Psychology, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Objective: Visual memory is one of the important cognitive processes that underlies thinking and learning and plays an important role in learning, especially children's reading and writing skills. For this purpose, the current research was conducted with the aim of investigating the effect of strengthening visual memory on the reading and writing skills of mentally retarded students.
Methods: The research design was a semi-experimental pre-test-post-test type with a control group. The statistical population included educable mentally retarded students of primary level in Marivan city in the academic year of 2024. From this statistical population, 30 students were selected as available and replaced in two groups of 15 people, control and experimental, by simple random. For the subjects of the experimental group, the educational program to strengthen the visual memory was implemented in 10 sessions of 30 minutes in a period of 40 days. The data were collected using two researcher-made reading and writing tests and Benton's visual-retention test and pre-test-post-test and follow-up and were analyzed by covariance and T correlated statistical methods with Spss version 24 software.
Results: The results of covariance analysis showed that the visual memory rehabilitation package had a statistically significant effect on improving reading skills (p<0.000 ,f=0.679) and writing skills (p<0.000 ,f=0.555).
Conclusions: It was concluded that strengthening the visual memory as an effective intervention method has improved the reading and writing performance of mentally retarded students. Therefore, it is suggested that the necessary educational interventions for teachers of schools with special needs should be carried out in order to strengthen the visual memory in order to be used as an educational method to correct and improve the reading and writing deficiencies of the mentally retarded students.

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