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Prevalence Rate of the Developmental Disabilities among Omani Children according to Gender and Educational Program
Place of publication | Year of publication | Collation: 
Oman | 2022 | 87 p.
Author: 
Ali Mahdi Kazem, Sahar Al-Shorbagy, Thuraya S
Region: 
Arab States

The present study aimed to early identify the developmental isabilities among kindergarten kids in Muscat. To achieve the aim of the study, the researchers used the developmental disabilities Inventory which has three axes: cognitive disabilities, linguistic disabilities and visual motor disabilities. The sample of the study was 365 children from kindergarten in Muscat. Findings indicated that the rate of spreading developmental disabilities of the sample reaches 6% and the rate of children who has risk of learning disabilities reaches 13.2%.The results also mentioned that there were statistically significant differences in the rate of spreading evelopmental disabilities due to the type variable in favour of the males. Also, there were significant differences in the educational program variable in favour of international schools.

Files: 
Resource Type: 
Conference and programme reports
Theme: 
Peace / Culture of peace
Preventing violent extremism / genocide
Level of education: 
Non-formal education
Keywords: 
Developmental difficulties
learning difficulties
prevalence rates
Children
early detection