تاثير مداخلات به هنگام روان شناختي و آموزشي خانواده محور بر رشد حركتي كودكان مبتلا به نشانگان داون

The Effect ofEducationalandPsychological Family- BasedEarly Intervention on the Motor evelopment ofChildren with Down Syndrome

Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of psychological and educational family- based early interventions on motor development of Isfahan ian children with Down syndrome under age 5. Materials & Methods: In this exper imental and interventional study, 36 parents who had children with Down syndrome were randomly selected and assigned into two groups by bal anced randomized method. Hornbyʹs counseling model and educational plan was implemented on experimental group. To collect data Winders motor developmental checklist and Gesell psycho-motor scale were used. Covariance stati stical method was used to analysis the data . Results: Findings showed that there were significant differences in performance of children with Down syndrome, between experimental group and control group in both gross motor and psycho-motor skills (P