فعالية برنامج تدريبي قائم على الوظائف التنفيذية لخفض الألكسثيميا لدى أطفال الروضة المتلعثمين
The aim of the research was to reveal the effectiveness of the training program based on executive functions to reduce alexithymia in stuttering kindergarten children. The research was conducted on (16) stuttering children from low executive functions with their mothers and divided the sample into two groups (8) stuttering children with their mothers as a control group, and (8) stuttering children with their mothers as an experimental group, and the two groups were equal in terms of age, intelligence, stuttering, executive functions, and alexithymia. The researcher used the behavioral assessment scale for the executive functions of the stuttering kindergarten child (assessment by the teacher), the alexithymia scale for the stuttering kindergarten child (assessment by mother) and a training program based on the executive functions of the stuttering kindergarten child, all of which were prepared by the researcher. As well as the Ahmed Zaki Saleh Scale (1978) for illustrated intelligence and the Sohir Mahmoud Amin (2017) to estimate the severity of the stuttering. The research concluded that the training program based on executive functions were effective in reducing alexithymia in stuttering kindergarten children. (Published abstract)