Effect Of Yogic Practices On Motor Fitness Of Intellectually Disabled Children

Abstract

The purpose of present research was to study the effect of 6 weeks Yogic Practice Program on intellectually disabled children. Total 10 intellectually disabled children aged between 10 to 12 years were selected with non-probability based purposive sampling. For the assessment of motor fitness components i.e balance, flexibily, coordination and muscular strength ; Stork balance test, sit and reach test, juggling test and basic plank test were conducted respectively. 6 weeks Yogic Practice program was designed and implemented on the selected sample. The collected data was analyzed using descriptive statistics and to study the effect of 6 weeks yogic practice program paired sample t-test was computed. The mean and standard deviation (Pre-test) of balance, coordination, flexibity and strength were 8.30 (2.003), 6.20 (1.229), 15.43 (3.47), and 15.50 (3.68) respectively. Whereas, the mean and standard deviation (Post-test) of balance, coordination, flexibity and strength were 13.50 (4.197), 10.40 (1.350), 20.54 (5.307), and 25.90 (6.100) respectively. The mean difference of balance, coordination, flexibity and strength for pre and post data was -5.200, -4.200, -5.1100 and -10.400. The calculated t-values for balance, coordination, flexibility and strength were -6.738 ,-10.804 , -7.604 and -8.776 respectively. The result of statistical analysis shows that there is significant difference in the pre test and post test scores at 0.05 level of significance. To analyse the data statistically ,SPSS software was used. The findings of this study indicates that there was significant improvement in the motor fitness (Balance, Coordination, Flexibility and Muscular strength) of Intellectually Disabled students post the implementation of yogic practice program.