Effects of swimming activity towards sustained attention performance among students in the special education programme

Author

Masuri, Mohamad Ghazali ; Rozalli, Siti Aisyah ; Isa, Khairil Anuar Md. ; Masngut, Mohd Izwan

Author_Institution

Occupational Therapy department, Faculty of Health Sciences, UiTM Puncak Alam, Selangor, MALAYSIA

fYear

2011

fDate

5-6 Dec. 2011

Firstpage

809

Lastpage

812

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: This study evaluated the effects of two swimming sessions towards sustained attention performance of the intervention group in comparison with the control group. A pre-test and post-test quasi experiment on the effects of swimming activity towards sustained attention performance (S.A.P) was conducted with children in the special education programme (S.E.P). In addition, demographic differences were also evaluated. METHOD: Forty-six S.E.P students were conveniently assigned to control and experiment group. Pre-test and post-test measures of S.A.P were administered. RESULTS: There were significant different between control and experiment group during post-test. There were also significant different between pre-test and post-test of the intervention group. Age differences also showed significant different of S.A.P. CONCLUSION: Findings suggest that swimming activity effects S.A.P positively.

Keywords

autistic; sensory integration; special education; sustained attention; swimming;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Humanities, Science and Engineering (CHUSER), 2011 IEEE Colloquium on

Conference_Location

Penang, Malaysia

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0021-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CHUSER.2011.6163848

Filename

6163848