The effectiveness of neuropsychological rehabilitation treatment on improving the performance of response inhibition in students with learning disabilities in math and dyscalculia

This study examines the effectiveness of neuropsychological rehabilitation treatment on improving the performance of response inhibition in people with learning disabilities in math and dyscalculia. Therefore, among the population of the city of Tabriz, that all students with disabilities in math and reading centers of learning disorders in the 2015-2016 academic year, 30 students with these disabilities, aged 8 to 12 years, received 20 sessions of 30- to 45-minute treatment, with the Persian version of the educational software SOUND SMART produced by BRAIN TRAIN company. The data were analyzed through SPSS (Version 21) descriptive statistics and multivariate regression analysis. The results revealed that neuropsychological rehabilitation of response inhibition had a significant positive impacton students with learning disabilities in math and reading (p < .01). According to the results of the present study, it can be concluded that rehabilitation therapy can be used as a complementary therapy along with other conventional therapies for math and reading learning disabilities.