Effectiveness of Computerized Cognitive Rehabilitation on Working Memory and Cognitive Flexibility Among Children with Learning Disorder (LD)

The purpose of this research was to study the effect of computerized cognitive rehabilitation on working memory and cognitive flexibility among children with Learning Disorder (LD).

This research was performed in semi-experimental manner with the pre-test, post-test and a controlgroup and with 45-day following-up. Among the students with learning disabilities, 24 students with learning disabilities were randomly selected and assigned to two experimental and control groups (12 people for each group). To collect the data, N-Back Test and Wisconsin Card Sorting Test were used. Data were analyzed by mixed analysis of variance (2×3) using the SPSS-24 software.

The results showed that there is a significant difference between experimental and control groups in working memory (F=19.21, df= 1.33, 29.34, p<0.05), number of categories (F=8.49, df=2, 44, p<0.05) and perseverative errors (F=11.07, df=1.55, 34.92, p<0.05).

According to these results, it can be said that computerized cognitive rehabilitation is effective on improving of working memory and cognitive flexibility in children with learning disorder.