Comparison of Sustained Attention in Children with Learning Disabilities and Normal Children

Abstract

Attention is one of the cases which the current theories about learning disabilities emphasis them. The purpose of this study was comparing sustained attention performance in children with learning disabilities and normal chil- dren.Method: This study's research design was causal-comparative design. The study population consisted all of fifth elementary grade children in lordegan city. The statistical sample included 30 children with reading learning disability, Iran Key Math Diagnostic Arithmetic and writing expression tests, respectively and 30 normal children (control group). To select children with learning disabilities and normal children, available and randomly sampling manners were used, respectively. All of samples were in the age range of 9-12 years and IQ range of 90-115. To assess IQ, Mathematics disorder may also be the result of damage in certain parts of the brain. It also has led to aweak understanding of mathematical concepts and increased realization of mathematics. In this study, it is tried that studied gender difference between learning disabled students' performances in mathematical activities. Find- ings indicated that there is not meaningful difference between enders. Since this research was case study, it seems that this difference will be indicated in vast studies. Then it suggests that have to do more study in this field for its causes.