Determining the effect of Cognitive Rehabilitation (CR) with Captain's Log computer game on improving of executive functions of students with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

Background and Aim: the children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in executive functions such as kinds of attention, response inhibition and response rate cope with problems which need therapeutic and educational plans to improve. From this kind of methods, cognitive rehabilitation is a new approach, which its effectiveness has studied in various cases. Methods this study is a kind of quasi-experimental design with pre-test/post-test and control groups. ۳۰ students come down with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) selected by the available sampling method and base on criteria for entering of referrals to medical centers. ۱۵ students were in experimental groups and others in control group. Experimental group have received training and computer-assisted Cognitive Rehabilitation for ۱۵ Sessions. Research tools are: the integrated visual and auditory (IVA) continuous performance test, raven's progressive matrices test for children ۵ to ۹ years, SNAP-IV rating scale the Swanson questionnaire and Cognitive Rehabilitation software of Captain's Log. Data has analyzed by analyze of covariance method. Results: The aim of this study is to find out the effect of cognitive rehabilitation by using of Captain's Log cognitive game. The impact of game causes to improve executive functions of students with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) Conclusion: the results of this study revealed that Improvements caused by computer-assisted Cognitive Rehabilitation in executive functions and response inhibition variables, sustain attention, self-centered attention and selective attention were statistically significant. But, statistically significant Improvement was not observed in two variables, response rate and divided attention

Keywords:

Executive functions , Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) , computer- assisted Cognitive Rehabilitation