فاعلية البرنامج الإرشادي لأمهات الأطفال المعاقين ذهنيا القابلين للتعلم لتنمية التفاعل الاجتماعي لأبنائهم بمراكز التربية الخاصة بولاية الخرطوم

Abstract EN

This study aimed to identify the effectiveness of Proposed Counseling Program for Mothers of retarded children to develop the social interaction for their children in special need centers - Khartoum State.

The researcher followed quasi- experimental method, the pilot group, which was implemented by the Guidance and 8 mothers, represented by the Eshragat Alamal center, and the control group was selected from rehabilitation center for child protection center and data collection, which used the social interaction researcher, which was designed as a proposed guidance program for maternities and after the implementation of the program and the collection of data by an analysis by the statistical package for social science (SPSS) and the statistical methods were used to test (Wilcoxon) for two independent samples and (Mann Whitney), the study concluded to the following findings: there are differences among mentally impaired children in the experimental group between the pre- and post-scales after application of counseling program in favor of the post-scale, there are differences among mentally impaired children in the experimental group between the pre- and post-scales after application of counseling program to the mothers due to child gender (male/female), there are differences in social interaction among mentally impaired children in the experimental group between the pre- and post-scales after application of counseling program to the mothers due variable of mother dedication level.