Therapy Program for Academic Skills in Children With Intellectual Disability

NCT05900830 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: P.T.REC/012/004233
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 20
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of a physical and occupational therapy program on academic skills in a sample of Egyptian children with intellectual disability. It also aims to provide a program based on physical and occupational therapy activities and techniques to develop children's basic abilities through play to make learning more enjoyable

Conditions

Intellectual Disability, Mild; Educational Problems

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• The Academic Skills Scale for Children with Mild Intellectual Disabilities.

  Reading and writing words, reading and writing simple sentences, knowledge of reading phenomena, comprehension., Reading, reading expression, reading and writing numbers and numbers, order and sequence, classification, relationships, arithmetic operations

  2 months

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• The Stanford-Binet Scale, the fifth edition

  2 months

Study Arms (2)

common educational methods

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

this group will receive common educational methods

Other: common educational methods

play based program

EXPERIMENTAL

this group will get the combined selected physical and occupational therapy program

Other: play therapy

Interventions

play therapy OTHER

A combined program based on physical and occupational therapy techniques within a play context

Also known as: physical and occupational therapy program

play based program

common educational methods OTHER

the child will receive his education in a passive manner

Also known as: Passive class room education

common educational methods

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 8 Years - 10 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)

You may qualify if:

• The child should be between 8 and 10 years of age of both sexes
• The child should be of mild intellectual disabilities according to Stanford Binet scale 5th edition
• The child should not be suffering from any apparent physical deformity in upper limbs, lower limbs or spine
• The child should not suffer from any visual or auditory disorder

You may not qualify if:

• Children out of age range
• Children with moderate or severe intellectual disabilities
• Children with physical deformities in upper limb, lower limb or spine
• Children suffering from visual or auditory disorders
• Children of parents who refuse to sign the consent form

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Beni-Suef University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Tayseer Younes

Cairo, Cairo Governorate, 11411, Egypt

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Intellectual Disability; Lymphoma, Follicular

Interventions

Play Therapy; Restraint, Physical

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Neurobehavioral Manifestations; Neurologic Manifestations; Nervous System Diseases; Signs and Symptoms; Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms; Neurodevelopmental Disorders; Mental Disorders; Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin; Lymphoma; Neoplasms by Histologic Type; Neoplasms; Lymphoproliferative Disorders; Lymphatic Diseases; Hemic and Lymphatic Diseases; Immunoproliferative Disorders; Immune System Diseases

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Sensory Art Therapies; Complementary Therapies; Therapeutics; Psychotherapy; Behavioral Disciplines and Activities; Behavior Control; Immobilization; Investigative Techniques

Study Officials

• Zienab M Mahmoud, PhD

  Beni-Suef University

  STUDY CHAIR

• Nahed MG Makary, PhD

  Beni-Suef University

  STUDY CHAIR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Lecturer

Model Details: Quasi experimental

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: February 10, 2023
• First Posted: June 13, 2023
• Study Start: November 15, 2022
• Primary Completion: January 30, 2023
• Study Completion: February 5, 2023
• Last Updated: November 12, 2024

Record last verified: 2024-11

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

EG (1)