TY - JOUR JF - USWR JO - jrehab VL - 13 IS - 0 PY - 2013 Y1 - 2013/3/01 TI - Investigation of the Effectiveness Social Competence Instruction on the Adaptation Behavior in Boy Students with Intellectual Disability TT - بررسی اثربخشی آموزش کفایت اجتماعی بر رفتار سازشی دانش‌آموزان کم‌توان‌ ذهنی N2 - Objective: The purpose of the present research was to investigation of the effectiveness social competence instruction on the adaptation behavior of 12-14 years old boy students with intellectual disability in Tehran province. Materials & Methods: This research was quasi experimental with pre-test and post-test design with control group. The study population included of 12-14 years old boy students with intellectual disability in Tehran province. The participants were chosen by cluster sampling method from two districts of Tehran province. Then, from each districts were chosen one school and from each school were chosen 20 boy students with Intellectual disability by randomly method. They were divided in experimental and control group. for experimental group were used social competence instruction in the 10 instructional sessions but the control group did not receive none of instruction. The instruments consist of Riven intelligence test, Vineland adaptive behavior scales and social competence instructional program. The data analysis was done by using MANCOVA. Results: The findings of this research showed that there was significant increase in adaptive behavior scores of experimental group in comparison with control group (P SP - 104 EP - 113 AU - Jalil-Abkenar, Seyedeh Somayyeh AU - A'shouri, Mohammad AU - Pourmohammadreza-Tajrishi, Ma'soumeh AD - Roudehen Branch, Islamic Azad University, Roudehen, Iran KW - Social competence KW - Adaptive behavior KW - Intellectual disability UR - http://rehabilitationj.uswr.ac.ir/article-1-1151-en.html ER -