A Program Based on Visual Thinking Networks to Develop Mental Alertness for Hearing-Impaired Children

Daraz, Aya Abdel Hamid Suleiman

doi:10.21608/jsrep.2025.457998

A Program Based on Visual Thinking Networks to Develop Mental Alertness for Hearing-Impaired Children

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Aya Abdel Hamid Suleiman Daraz

Kindergarten Department, Faculty of Humanities, Al-Azhar University

10.21608/jsrep.2025.457998

Abstract

The aim of the research is to identify the effectiveness of the program based on visual thinking networks to develop mental alertness for the hearing-impaired children,The research sample consisted of (20) boys and girls from the Resala Association in Nasr City, in the age group of ( 5-7) years, divided into (10) experimental group children and (10) control group children, The experimental approach was used ,The research used tools, the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale, Fifth Edition (standardized and translated by Safwat Farag, 2016), the mental alertness Scale for Children with hearing – impaired (prepared by the researcher), and a program based on visual thinking networks for develop Mental alertness in children with hearing – impaired (prepared by the researcher).The results of the research demonstrated There are statistically significant differences between the average grades of the children of the experimental group and the control group on the scale of illustrated mental alertness after the application of the program for the experimental group , There are statistically significant differences between the average grades of the children of the experimental group before and after the application of the program in favor of the dimensional measurement on the scale of illustrated mental alertness , There are no statistically significant differences between the average grades of the children of the experimental group in the dimensional and the follow-up measurement on the scale of the illustrated mental alertness.

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