Social Support among Families of Disabled Children at Ajloun Area Regarding to some Variables, the Type and the Degree of Disability of the Child

Abstract

The study aimed to expose the level of the total social support among Families of children with learning disabilities according to some variables, the child disability type and the degree in Ajloun Area. In order to get the objectives of this study, the researcher used social support scale, which was built by Abdelalmaksoud and Al-Sarsi, and Arabized by Diab (2006) and the researcher reedit it to be suitable for the Jordanian area, and was modified to fit the study sample. and the validity and stability of this scale were found, and the sample constains of (38) of disabled children's' families who are selected intentionally, and the researcher analyzed the data by finding the correlation coefficients ,the arithmetic averages and standard deviations and finding the value of (t). The study shows that the total social support level among families of disabled children in Ajloun city is average. There aren't any statistically significant differences at the level (α≤ .05) of the level of total social support among Families of disabled children according to the variables( the gender, the age and the educational level for the family (the father, the mother), the type and the degree of disability and the economic level of the family of the disabled child's family). The results were also discussed in the light of the theoretical literature and previous studies, and some recommendations were suggested based on the results of the study.