Effectiveness of Cognitive Rehabilitation Program Based on Optimal cognitive burden in self-regulation and academic achievement in children with special learning disorders

The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of cognitive rehabilitation program based on optimal cognitive load on self-regulation and academic achievement in children with special learning disorder. The research method was applied in terms of purpose and And in terms of the nature of the data, the quasi-experimental design was a pre-test-post-test with the control group with the follow-up period.The statistical population of this study included all children aged 10-8 years with symptoms of special learning disorder who had referred to public learning disorders centers in Tehran in the academic year 2019-2020. For this purpose, a sample of 25 subjects were selected by available sampling method and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups.Data were collected using the Second Learning Disorder Assessment Scale (LDES-R2), McCarney & Armwood (2007), Wechsler Children's Intelligence Scale (WISC-IV), and Novak and Clayton's Self-Regulation Questionnaire (2001). Multivariate Covariance analysis test was used to analyze the data, the results showed that cognitive rehabilitation program has an effect on academic self-regulation and its cognitive, behavioral and emotional components and academic performance of students with special learning disorder. Based on the findings of this study, it can be concluded that cognitive rehabilitation program can be used as a suitable method to promote self-regulation and academic performance of students.