A program based on Brain Gym to develop some cognitive processes among kindergarten children with attention deficit and hyperactivity

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Kindergarten Department, Faculty of Humanities, Al-Azhar University

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The research aimed to develop some cognitive processes (attention - perception - memory) among kindergarten children with attention deficit and hyperactivity, through a program based on brain gym. The research sample consisted of (20) male and female children from Abbas Al-Akkad Language School Kindergarten, between the ages of (5-7) years, and they were divided into two equal groups, the first group is experimental (10) children, and the second group is control (10) children, while the research tools were represented in Good Enough drawing  test man, and the hyperactivity and attention deficit test, the teachers' version of Conner , and the parents’ version of Zukow and Bentlier, as well as the pictured cognitive processes scale (prepared by the researcher), and a program based on brain gym for the development of some cognitive processes (prepared by the researcher). The results of the research revealed the effectiveness of the program based on brain gym in developing some cognitive processes of kindergarten children with attention deficit and hyperactivity. Where the value of the effect size was (r = 0.77), and the percentage value corresponding to the effect size was (49%), and this means that the children of the experimental group who were exposed to the program based on brain gym were superior to the children of the control group by 49 percentage points, on the pictured cognitive processes scale in telemetry, This indicates the effectiveness of the program based on brain gym in developing some cognitive processes of kindergarten children with attention deficit and hyperactivity.

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