A COMPARISON STUDY FOR BALANCE ON INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES CHILDREN BY GENDER

Klevi AGALLIU, Juel JARANI

Abstract

Being differently abled is a complex phenomenon that reflects an interaction between the features of a person’s body and the features of the society in which he or she lives. This study aims to compare the balance of intellectual disabilities in children by gender. The test manual was taken from the Guidelines to FUN Fitness Tests and Measures. In this study participated 34 children. Tests were performed such as: single leg stance - eyes open, and single leg stance - eyes closed. The measurements were made in the period March- April 2023, in 4 cities in Albania. Results for single leg stance- eyes open right foot show: (boys 22.1seconds and girls 15.9 seconds) and left foot (boys 18.5 seconds and girls 8.5 seconds). Results for single leg stance- eyes closed right foot show (boys 10.8 seconds and girls 8.1 seconds) and left foot (boys 8.0 seconds and girls 8.3 seconds. In the conducted study, from the statistics analysis, we conclude that in the single leg stance - eyes open test boys have a better balance than girls ( for left foot F= 7.47 and Sig= 0.010 and for right foot is F= 0.929 and Sig= 0.343). While in all in the other tests we noticed that both boys and girls have equal balance.

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