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Establishing a Baseline Value of Cognitive Skills among School-Aged Children in Upper Egypt Using Computer Based Cognitive Assessment Rehacom Program

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Brain Informatics and Health (BIH 2014)

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Computer-based cognitive assessment programs for children have recently become increasingly popular. This assessment tool has many advantages over traditional assessment approaches including the option of offering an immediate feedback, the ability to systematize delivery of the test items and to modify the difficulty level and the ability to quantify progress. Purpose: the purpose of the study is to establish a reference baseline for the cognitive skills among Egyptian school-aged children. Method: This study is a cross-sectional prospective design. A sample of 223 healthy children of both sexes, of age ranged from 6-12 years, from urban areas’ elementary schools in Upper Egypt were recruited. Results: Rehacom program tool produced a separate progress report for the individual progress of every child. Conclusions: Based on the study‘s results the executive function ability was the first to initiated followed by the logical reasoning and finally the topological memory and vigilance

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    Faten Hassan Abdelazeim & Shereen Ali Ameen

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    Dominik Ślȩzak

  2. School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Nanyang Avenue, Singapore

    Ah-Hwee Tan

  3. Computational Intelligence Laboratory, ECE Department, University of Manitoba, R3T 5V6, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

    James F. Peters

  4. Institute of Computer Science, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

    Lars Schwabe

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Abdelazeim, F.H., Ameen, S.A. (2014). Establishing a Baseline Value of Cognitive Skills among School-Aged Children in Upper Egypt Using Computer Based Cognitive Assessment Rehacom Program. In: Ślȩzak, D., Tan, AH., Peters, J.F., Schwabe, L. (eds) Brain Informatics and Health. BIH 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8609. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09891-3_7

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