EFFECT OF CLASSICAL AND COMPUTER ASSISTED INSTRUCTION ON THE FUNDAMENTAL MOVEMENT SKILLS OF MILDLY INTELLECTUALLY DISABLED MALE CHILDREN

• DOI: 10.18316/rcd.v17i45.12342
• Publication Date: 2025-02-12T12:09:26Z
• Authors: Erkan Gülgösteren; Mehmet Akif Ziyagil

The lifelong participation of individuals with disabilities in physical and sporting activities requires the development fundamental movement skills from an early age. Thus this study aims to investigate effects classical computer-assisted instruction on characteristics, locomotor skills, object control mildly intellectually disabled (MID) boys. A total 60 children participated study. Participants were divided into three groups: (CI), plus (CI + CAI), (C) groups. CI CAI groups received training for 10 weeks, hours per week, one hour day. Ulrich's gross motor tests administered during pre-test post-test. Due lack normal distribution data, Kruskal-Wallis test was used comparisons between groups, while Wilcoxon determine differences pre- post-test measurements within each group. This showed no significant difference among gropus pre-test. However, found favor CI+CAI group demonstrated highest improvement all skills. It can be concluded that education is effective improving MID boys, more than alone.