The Effectiveness of Neuropsychological Rehabilitation Treatment on the Continuous Attention Function of Students with Dyscalculia

Dyscalculia is the disability to perform the skills related to calculation in consideration to intellectual capacity and educational level that is expected from a normal person. The current study was aimed to determine the effectiveness of neuropsychological rehabilitation treatment on the continuous attention function of students with dyscalculia.
The design of the present study was semi-experimental with two groups of 10 students from Tabriz city in 2016. The sampling method was simple randomization, in which a group of 10 students with mathematical learning disorder were chosen from five regions of the city with learning disorders and 10 students as a control group who had learning disability but without any therapeutic interventions. The case group received twenty therapeutic sessions of 45-minute. The study instrument contained of computer program of neuropsychological rehabilitation (sound smart) and continuous function test. The data analysis was done using the multivariable covariance analysis.
There were significant differences between the mean scores of the pretest and posttest of the experimental and control groups (p This study indicated that neuropsychological rehabilitation can be used as an effective method for people with mathematical learning disorders.