Today the new trend in educating students with hearing impairment in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is to educate these students in public schools with hearing students. One of the assumptions for educating deaf students in public schools is the expected benefit of students with he…
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This study investigated teachers' attitudes toward students with special needs in the State of Kuwait. Teacher's attitudes were examined based on three variables: gender, education/training, and teaching experience. Research questions were as follows: (1) what are the attitudes …
Riyadh high schools are not meeting the real world technology needs of their students and teachers in the classroom. The researcher investigated current classroom practices to see if computers and instructional technologies were being used in the areas of math, science and Engli…
This study highlights the challenges inherent in attempting to explore and characterize special education models of practice in developing nations. Many such nations, where individuals with disabilities have traditionally been excluded from mainstream education, are increasingly…
This study investigated the post school outcomes of 279 students with auditory and visual impairments who graduated between 2002 and 2006 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Through a combination of personal and telephone interviews, the study identified relationships between students' bac…
This research was conducted to profile the attitudes of elementary school teachers in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia toward the inclusion of children with autism in public education. The study consisted of 11 independent variables, including gender, citizenship, age, marital status, level…
This study is aimed at specifying the cognitive components for addition operations (encoding, speed of executing the operation, operation selection, and strategy choice) to determine if they are responsible for the difficulties that students with learning disabilities and mild m…
This study examined the perceptions of male and female administrators and special education teachers in Saudi Arabia regarding the use of Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA) in relation to its effectiveness and practicality for students with mental retardation. A four-part surv…
In 2005, Saudi Arabia amended legislation to allow students with learning disabilities (LD) to attend regular public schools. However, a variety of cultural considerations influences teachers' responses to this legislation. This dissertation investigates via mix methodology teac…
The purpose of this study was to investigate factors that could contribute to differences in attitudes of public school teachers toward the inclusion of students with special needs in general education classes in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). For inclusion to be successful, te…
This study analyzed the perceptions of mothers of children with disabilities in Qatar. This interpretive work included components of the methodology of both cultural study and translation study. Mothers? responses in Arabic and Farsi, were translated, separated, and analyzed thr…
In this study, 121 participants with varying educational levels, religious beliefs, and social backgrounds from the Idoma ethnic group of Benue State in Nigeria provided information on the relationship between their membership in African Traditional and Christian religions and t…
This study examined perceptions of Arab American parents of children with special needs regarding communication with the school and professionals who work with their children. The Arab American parents were both foreign-born and born in the United States and had students with sp…
This study evaluated the efficacy of the First Step to Success Early Intervention program on alleviating social-emotional and behavioral problems in Turkish children identified with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD) and the collateral effects of this intervention …
Teacher burnout is an important issue that needs to be understood in the educational environment. This study examines the burnout of general education teachers in inclusion settings, what may influence burnout, and the relationship between burnout and classroom and teacher facto…
Parents of children with autism have long been using parent support groups in order to gather new information, share their experiences, and receive emotional support. During the last decade, the proliferation of Internet and communication technologies enabled parents to form onl…
This study examined Islamic clerics' views of adapted physical education. The study was designed to give teachers an understanding regarding the best methods of serving students of the Islamic faith who receive adapted physical education. The study also compared the views of Isl…
A great attention is being directed toward improving special education services for children and adults with autism in Jordan. Among the different types of special education services comes the assessment and diagnostic evaluation process that helps professionals assess and diagn…