This basic qualitative research study describes how Jewish supplementary school directors and educators define inclusion, include students with disabilities in their religious school education programs, identify different components of the schools that benefit inclusion, and und…
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Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disabilities (EBDs) are often pushed out of the least restrictive schooling environment due to schools’ inability to meet their unique learning needs (OSEP, 2020). School-Wide Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (SW-PBIS) is a rese…
Recently, evidence has been converging to suggest that the source of reading difficulties of learning disabled children is not a perceptual deficit, but a language deficit. Particular attention has been focused on the importance of "metaphonological skills," i.e., the ability to…
The study is concerned with the development of a teaching strategy suited to the specific needs of hearing impaired children. It was conducted in the last three grades in primary special schools for hearing impaired children in Baghdad. The teaching method was based around works…
The objectives of this study were to identify and describe programs for hearing impaired elderly people in the United States; to analyze the differences and similarities among these centers; and to develop recommendations for additional services and research. To identify centers…
The purpose of this study was to describe and explain the trends in the development of education of the deaf in Nigeria between 1950 and 1985 and to examine the roles of administrators during that development. To achieve this objective, a qualitative research method was used. An…
The purpose of this study was to adapt and validate the Autism Behavior Checklist (ABC) for use in the country of Jordan. A back-translation procedure was used to obtain an equivalent Jordanian (Arabic) version. Validation of the Jordanian version was then conducted, and a compa…
Education in Saudi Arabia, excepting the last fifty years, has concentrated entirely on teaching the Muslim religion to young Saudi men. When the country began its drive for social and economic development, public education was governmentally perceived as a means of raising soci…
The purpose of this study was to determine the progress made in the implementation of the 1977 national policy on special education and the impact of the policy on the education of exceptional individuals in Nigeria. This investigation focused on four of the 1977 policy issues: …
The purpose of this study was to investigate attitudes toward the disabled in foreign students at Louisiana State University. Four hundred sixty-six students were administered the Attitude Toward Disabled People scale, Form A, and a demographic questionnaire, during the Fall sem…
The present study was designed to find out how classroom teachers and school administrators interpret the probable effects of mainstreaming on Nigerian primary school pupils. A 40-item questionnaire was used to find out the perceptions, of classroom teachers and school administr…
The major purposes of this study were to identify the involvement level of parents in their EMR children's education in Saudi Arabia, and to investigate the effect of selected demographic variables on the parents' level of involvement. Subjects were (N = 338) male parents of EMR…
This is a study of the development of the enthusiastic and responsive reaction toward the 1981 International Year of Disabled Persons which is an investigation of the development of Special Education in five countries of the Arabian Peninsula: Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman…
The primary purpose of this study was to assess the attitudes of the Saudi regular and special teachers and administrators toward children with handicaps and toward mainstreaming these children into regular classrooms. The subjects for this study consisted of 373 regular and spe…
Public schools in Saudi Arabia have no special education programs, nor do they have specialized teachers or consultants to assist regular teachers and help exceptional students within the general education context. The Ministry of Education is interested in establishing new prog…
This research was undertaken in order to investigate the effects of four treatment methods upon the pattern recognition ability of young children. This research employed two phases utilizing a single organism design for each phase. The four treatment methods were: (1) pattern re…
The purpose of this study was to determine the efficacy of simulation and lecture/discussion on attitudes and knowledge of visual impairments among Omani medical students. The study sought to examine teaching approaches that pertain to knowledge gain and attitude formation in ad…
The purpose of this study was to investigate the attitudes of principals toward educating handicapped students in the regular schools of Kuwait. The sample for this survey was composed of regular school principals in the State of Kuwait for the 1986-1987 school year. Of the 400 …