Exceptional Children Psychology
Shahrooz Nemati; rahim badri; Shahram Vahedi; Mohammad Bardel
Abstract
IntroductionSpeech disorder, including stuttering, is a communication disorder that affects the production and fluency of speech. Stuttering is characterized by repetitions, stretching, pauses, or involuntary stuttering in sounds, syllables, and words. It is prevalent in about 5% of adolescents and 20% ...
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IntroductionSpeech disorder, including stuttering, is a communication disorder that affects the production and fluency of speech. Stuttering is characterized by repetitions, stretching, pauses, or involuntary stuttering in sounds, syllables, and words. It is prevalent in about 5% of adolescents and 20% of the overall population. Stuttering can have a significant impact on communication abilities and may lead to psychological issues such as emotional disturbance, low cognitive flexibility, and perceptual speech problems. The current research aims to implement the "acceptance and commitment training" to determine its effectiveness on the academic emotions of students with stuttering disorder.MethodThe research used a single-subject design with different subjects, including 3 second-grade high school students with stuttering disorder. The students went through baseline, treatment, and follow-up stages. Student names were obtained from the social harms section of Khoi city's education management. Participants were second-year high school students with stuttering disorder, who hadn't received prior psychological intervention and met the entry and exit criteria. Participants with physical or sensory issues or who missed more than two sessions were excluded.ResultsA study was conducted with three student participants. Participant one is a 16-year-old boy in 11th grade with a history of late speech development. Participant two is a 17.5-year-old girl in 12th grade who struggles with speech fluency and accuracy. Participant three is a 15-year-old girl in 10th grade with speech problems and academic difficulties. The study includes detailed information about their backgrounds and the psychological assessments conducted. This information provides valuable insights for addressing their unique needs in the treatment process.DiscussionThe current study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of an acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) program in improving positive and negative academic emotions among second-year high school students who stutter. The analysis revealed that the ACT intervention had a significant positive effect on enhancing both positive and negative academic emotions in the participants. The ACT-based therapy facilitated students' ability to replace negative academic emotions with more positive experiences in the classroom, moving away from cognitive avoidance. However, the researchers acknowledged the uncontrollable nature of factors influencing academic emotions, such as personality traits, school environment, and personal/cultural beliefs, as a limitation of the study. Future research should consider the impact of additional variables, including personality and religious factors, as well as the program's effectiveness with other neurodevelopmental populations and socioeconomic groups. Additionally, comparing the outcomes of individual counseling with parents to group-based education would provide valuable insights for the implementation of this therapeutic approach.
Educational Psychology
rahim badri; Shahrooz Nemati; rogieh sarvazad sofiani
Abstract
IntroductionThe preschool years are a key period of development where social relationships, especially with parents, play a prominent role in how children regulate their emotions. One of the skills that children can acquire in this course is emotion regulation skills. Emotion regulation includes all ...
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IntroductionThe preschool years are a key period of development where social relationships, especially with parents, play a prominent role in how children regulate their emotions. One of the skills that children can acquire in this course is emotion regulation skills. Emotion regulation includes all internal and external processes through which people manage their emotions to achieve their goals. Effortful control of other research variables includes the ability to inhibit or suppress a dominant response in order to perform a secondary, less salient response and detect errors. The Tuning in to Kids program for children is one of the parent group programs that teaches parents of preschool children awareness and emotion regulation skills and emotion coaching skills at the global level. The present study was conducted with the aim of determining the effectiveness of the Tuning in to Kids program on the skills of emotional regulation and effortful control of preschool children.MethodThe method of the present research was a semi-experimental type. The statistical population of the research was preschool children of Marand city. The target sample was 40 preschool children of Marand city, who had low scores based on the cutoff point of Shields and Cichetti's emotion regulation test and Rothbart et al.'s child behavior, and they were selected randomly in experimental groups (20 people) and Control (20 people) were replaced. The experimental group was trained in the Tuning in to Kids program for children, and the intervention was carried out for 8 sessions of 90 minutes and once a week on the experimental group. Data were analyzed using mixed multivariate analysis of variance.ResultsThe results of this research showed that the average of the experimental and control groups had significant differences in effortful control variables and emotion regulation skills. Also, the findings indicated the effectiveness and durability of the Tuning in to Kids program on emotional regulation skills (p=0.05) and effortful control (p=0.05) of preschool children.DiscussionBased on the results, it can be concluded that the Tuning in to Kids program for children, by emphasizing awareness, regulation, expression and understanding of positive emotions, increases the skill of emotional regulation in children. Also, by increasing emotional awareness, this parent-centered program helps children to become more aware of their impulses and reactions and develop the ability to exercise conscious control over their emotional and behavioral responses. Therefore, educators and parents can use this educational package to increase the skills of emotion regulation and effortful control in preschool children.