The effectiveness of cognitive rehabilitation on working and visual memory of students with dysgraphia

Considering the effects of dysgraphia on the psychological dimension of affected students and severe academic learning problems, the present study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of cognitive rehabilitation on the working and visual memory of dysgraphia students.

The present study was semi-experimental with a pre-test and post-test design with a follow-up period with a control group. The research population included all second and third-grade female students with dysgraphia in Tehran, Iran, in the academic year of 2021-2022 who were referred from regular schools to educational and rehabilitation centers for special learning problems. Among them, twenty-eight people were selected and randomly placed in two experimental and control groups. Furthermore, they responded to Yaqoubi et al.'s dysgraphia diagnostic scale (2020), N-BACK (2001), and Kim Karad's visual memory test (1945). Then, the experimental group received the cognitive rehabilitation training program, but only school training was provided to the control group. For data analysis, a repeated measurement test was used with SPSS version 24 software at a significance level 0.05.

The results revealed that the cognitive rehabilitation program effectively improved the working and visual memory of dysgraphia students, and the results were stable in the follow-up period. (P<0.01).

It is suggested to use the cognitive rehabilitation approach in educational and training centers to improve the working and visual memory of dysgraphia students.