The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of self-instructional strategies on impulsive behavior and out of seat of behavior for children with ADHD. For this purpose, three ADHD children were selected as subjects from the 5 years old ch...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of self-instructional strategies on impulsive behavior and out of seat of behavior for children with ADHD. For this purpose, three ADHD children were selected as subjects from the 5 years old children in kindergarten, through a diagnosis with DSM-IV, Conners' condensed evaluation measure for attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity and a rating sheet for over action with lack of attention.
The experiment was conducted for 20 minutes of during circle time, starting third week of September, three times a week, for eight weeks all 24 times. The design of the experiment comprised of multiple baseline design across subjects, and I recorded impulsive behavior and out of seat of children through direct observation performing an interval recording. Independent variable is self instructive program, dependent variable is MFFT(Matching-Familiar Figures Test) responding time and the number of incorrect answer and out of seat, the result represents by graph.
First, the self-instructional training was effective reducing impulsive behavior, to change the ADHD children more thoughtful than before, increasing first responding time of impulsive experiment and reducing incorrect answers.
Secondly, the self-instructional training was effective reducing the frequency of out of seat behavior in children with ADHD.
The result of the experiments proved that self-instructional strategies were effective on reducing impulsive behavior and out of seat of behavior for children with ADHD.