The Effect of Sport Vision Training on Visual Perception in Children with Intellectual Disability

Children with intellectual disability experience many problems in their everyday lives and educational issues. One of these important issues exists in visual perception. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to examine the effect of sport vision training on visual perception of children with intellectual disability in Isfahan city. 30 children were selected from educable students with intellectual disability (7-11 years old) as the sample and were randomly assigned to two groups (each group 15 subjects):experimental and control. Before the training, children with intellectual disability underwent Wechsler IQ test and educable children entered the study. Also, before the training, the TVPS - II visual perception pretest was administered. Then, experimental group had their training for 8 weeks, 3 sessions per week and 45 minutes each session. In the final stage, TVPS - II visual perception pretest was conducted. Based on the results of the MANCOVA analysis (with the control of pretest scores) sport vision training had an effect on the mean of all visual perception components except for form constancy test in the posttest (P<0.05). The results of this study showed that sport vision training can improve the visual perception of children with intellectual disability. Therefore, it is suggested that sport vision training is also used to treat and rehabilitate these children in the treatment process.