Abstract:

        The purpose of this study is to compare the pre- and post-anger status of exercise and sportive play programs in children with intellectual disabilities.         20 children with intellectual disabilities aged between 12 and 18 years who educated at Çamlık Special Education and Vocational Training Center in Denizli province in 2015-2016 academic year participated in the study. The exercise and sportive game program, which included basic mobility skills, was administered to children with intellectual disabilities for two sessions a week for 8 weeks. Before and after the training program, a scale was applied to the mothers of children with intellectual disabilities to determine their anger levels. The "Trait Anger and Anger Expression Scale" developed by Spielberger et al. (1983), adapted into Turkish by Özer (1994) was used. The scale includes continuous anger, anger out, anger in and anger control subscales. The Wilcoxon test was used to compare pre- and post-program anger status of children with intellectual disabilities.         There was no significant difference in the continuous anger, anger out, anger in subscales (p> 0.05) after the exercise and sports game program. However, there was a significant difference for the anger control subscale (p <0,05).         The results of our study suggest that participation in exercise and sportive game program in children with intellectual disabilities have a positive effect on the anger control.

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