Early Intervention Services, Importance and Availability Extent from Workers Point of View, Who Serves in the Intellectual Disability Centers in Ma’an, Jordan

Moneera Meheel Almsbhieen

doi:10.5539/ies.v9n10p216

Abstract

This study aims to highlight the importance of early intervention as to intellectual disabled children, level of its availability through the point of view generated from workers in Intellectual disability centers at Ma’an–Jordan. Moreover, we shall discuss herein the differences that carry statistical significance in early intervention services offered for intellectual disabled children that may be attributed to variables of gender, experience, qualification, specialty and center location.The study sample has been formed from all workers at centers derived from the Ministry of Social development that offers its services to the intellectual disabled children, totaled at 44 (13males and 31 females).In order to achieve the study aim, the researcher developed the study tool represented by a questionnaire consisting of two scopes; Importance of early intervention and its availability level, of 37 items. After confirming the tool stability and accuracy it has been applied on the study sample, then data was collected. We employed statistical methods; Person correlation coefficients, SMAs, Standard deviations and analyzing the multiple contrast.The outcomes refer that the early intervention services importance is extremely high, and its availability is also at good level in the intellectual disability centers at Ma’an city. There were not differences of statistical significance at 0.5 level as to early intervention services importance offered for intellectual disabled children which are attributed to variables; gender, experience, qualification, specialty and center location. On the other hand, it was noticed the absence of differences of statistical significance at the level of early intervention services offered for intellectual disabled children that may be attributed to variables; gender, experience, qualification and specialty. While we noticed that there are differences of statistical significance as to the location variable. On the light of the generated outcomes we presented herein guiding and educational instructions in that regard.

Highlights

Special education field witnessed great attention especially in the 19th Century as a result of development of disability concept and inclusion thereof (Yeyha, 2006)
Ghulam and Kady (2015), study aimed at detecting the level of services provided by special educational institutions in Tripoli-Libya over the Mediterranean from the perspective of workers in those centers and the relative ranking of those services, the study sample consisted of (150) of the staff, administrators and social workers and psychologists who work in those centers, a questionnaire was applied to the sample and the results showed that the level of services provided by special education institutions in the city of Tripoli-Libya above average
The purpose of the study carried out by El-Al-Sherbini and Sayed (2013), to identify the most important challenges facing the application of programs in the Omani society and the gyptian community, study sample consisted of (150) families, (75) families of Omani society and (75) a families of Egyptian society, And the study tool was semi-Accurate interviews as well as data collection form, and the results indicated that 51% of parents of intellectual disabled children in the Omani society do not realize that early intervention, as well as (50.25) of the sons of Egyptian society did not enroll their children with Intellectual disabilities in early intervention programs

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Introduction

Special education field witnessed great attention especially in the 19th Century as a result of development of disability concept and inclusion thereof (Yeyha, 2006). Out of the important subjects that received great attention is what is called early intervention including group of various services; i.e. Medical, social, educational and psychological services offered to children under six years old and suffering disabilities or congenital disability (Al Zraiqat, 2009).

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