The Effect of Creative Movement Games on the social skills Development in Educatable Intellectual Disabled Children

The present study aims to investigate the effect of creative movement games on the social skills development in educatable intellectual disabled children. The population of the study consisted of all educatable intellectual disabled students aged between 6 and 12 in the city of Shiraz during the 2016-2017 academic year. In this quasi-experimental study, 58 Educatable Intellectual Disabled Children (30 boys and 28 girls) with the average age of 9.07 years years were selected randomly and assigned to experimental and control groups. To assess the social skills of the participants, their teachers were asked to answer the social skills sub-questions of Gersham and Elliott (1990) social skills questionnaire. The experimental group performed creative activity games for 6 weeks, and the control group performed the normal activities associated with the school program during this period. For analyzing the data, Levene's Test, Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test and covariance analysis were used by SPSS-16 software at the significance level of 0.05. The results showed that the intervention of creative motor games on social skills lead to a significant difference between experimental and control groups (P≤0.05). It seems that Creative Movement Games an effective role in the social skills Development Educatable Intellectual Disabled Children due to the provision of training opportunities, favorable conditions and having fun and diverse programs.