بررسي تاثير آموزش تمرين ذهني بر روي پيشرفت توانش هاي حركتي دانش آموزان نابينا

The effect of mental practice training on motor skills Achievement of blind students

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of mental practice training on motor skills achievement of blind student .the statistical society included all of the boy students in grade 2 of blind guidance schools in Tehran in 1385-86.the sample consisted of 20 students with random sampling method were chosen. This study was experimental with control group and random assignment. The instruments were Lincoln ozeretski motor scale and vividness of movement imagery questionnaire (VMIQ). The training lasted eighteen 30-minutes session along 6 weeks and a follow-up test was carried out after one month. For analysis, descriptive and inferential statistical (analysis of variance with repeated measures) were used. The results showed that: I. The students who had received mental practice training gained significantly higher scores in motor skills than those with no training. 2. After one month, the trained group had a significantly better performance than those with no training. 3. Those with mental practice training gained significantly better scores in motor imagery than those with no training.