Abstract
This study aimed to know the friendship skills of students with Learning Disabilities (LD) from the perspective of their teachers, and it aimed to investigate the effect of some variables on these skills. In order to achieve the aims of this study, checklist of friendship skills for students with LD was used to collect data about 300 students with LD (150 boys and 150 girls). The results indicated that about 69.3% - 70.7% from teachers of students with LD indicated that the students with LD have few friends or no friends. Also it indicates that there are significant differences between students with LD in the friendship skills due to gender to favor boys. And there are no significant differences between students with LD in the friendship skills due to age and interaction between gender and age.
Highlights
This study aimed to know the friendship skills of students with Learning Disabilities (LD) from the perspective of their teachers, and it aimed to investigate the effect of some variables on these skills
There are no significant differences between students with LD in the friendship skills due to age and interaction between gender and age
In the definition of the National Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities (NJCLD), the learning disability is a general term that refers to a heterogeneous group of disorders manifested by significant difficulties in the acquisition and use of listening, speaking, reading, writing, reasoning, or mathematical abilities
Summary
In the definition of the National Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities (NJCLD), the learning disability is a general term that refers to a heterogeneous group of disorders manifested by significant difficulties in the acquisition and use of listening, speaking, reading, writing, reasoning, or mathematical abilities. The difficulties that prevent persons with LD from making and keeping friends are: behavioral problems (Hoyle & Serafica, 1988 [32]; Almakanin, Alabdallat & Anjadat, 2014 [33]) like attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ADHD (Wiener, 2004 [25]), researchers have consistently found an overlap of 10% to 25% between ADHD and LD (Forness & Kavale, 2001 [34]), and Flicek (1992) [35] in his study, found that the serious problems with peers rejection, low popularity and mal social behavior were the most strongly related to the combination of ADHD and LD. Persons who have these things have a popularity and a large number of friends (Wiener, 2004 [25])
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