The Effectiveness of computer games therapy was aimed to facilitate intellectually disabled children diagnosed with hyperactivity. The present study consisted of three phases, such as Phase 1, 2 and 3.The Phase 1 involved a survey method which was exploratory in nature to examine the prevalence of hyperactivity among intellectually disabled children. The total sample for the current study consisted of 283 intellectually disabled children randomly selected from rural, semi urban and urban areas of Visakhapatnam, Vizayanagarm and Srikakulam districts of Andhra pradesh. ABC –C Check –list was developed and standardised by Aman and translated in Telugu by Raju M.V, Lehotkay R, and Saraswathi Devi T, for this study and a demographic data was also used. This was followed by the development of an intervention program (as Phase -2) to be administered. Phase 3 which was also one group pre-test, post -test design with 28 sample focused upon the testing of the effectiveness of the developed psychological intervention. Statistical tests used for the present study included percentages, Mean, standard deviation-test, one-way ANOVA, Post Hoc Test and Paired Sample t-test. The results observed a significant difference between pre-test and post-test measures of hyperactivity on the application of computer games therapy as an intervention for intellectually disabled children.

Computer games therapy, hyperactivity, intellectually disabled children,