The effect of a rhythmic exercise program supported by popular games on Balance and psychological reassurance for the hearing impaired

Document Type : Original Article

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Faculty of Physical Education, Minia University

Abstract

The current research aims to try to identify the effect of a program of rhythmic exercises supported by games for the people under study on a deliberate sample of (10) ten schoolgirls aged (13-15) years, all of whom have severe hearing impairment ranging from (75%: 90) %) decibels of the hearing-impaired first year middle school students at Al-Amal Joint School for the Deaf and Dumb in Minya Governorate for the 2021/2022 school year, the first semester, consisting of (25) twenty-five female students.

The two researchers applied the program to the research sample on Sunday and Tuesday of each week at the rate of one class per day. The period of the class was (45) forty-five minutes for a period of (8) eight weeks, with a rate of (16) sixteen classes in the period from Sunday, corresponding to 24/10/ 2021 AD to Tuesday 14/12/2021 AD.

The two researchers found the positive effect of the rhythmic exercise program supported by folk games on the balance and psychological reassurance of the hearing-impaired students.
1- The rhythmic exercise program supported by folk games has a positive effect on the development of balance (fixed and mobile) under study for the hearing impaired.
2 The rhythmic exercise program supported by folk games has a positive effect on improving the feeling of psychological reassurance under discussion among the auditory impaired.

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