Obstacles to using educational techniques with intellectually disabled students in Khartoum state, as discovered by special education female teachers

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This paper presents the reality of the obstacles to the use of educational techniques in teaching children with intellectual disabilities as perceived by special education female teachers.

To achieve this goal the researcher used the descriptive approach to the population of special education female teachers from some localities of Khartoum state which constitute (50) female teachers, from which a sample of (30) teachers was selected purposively, the study tools were represented in the scale of the obstacles of educational techniques of special education teachers prepared by the researcher, data were analyzed using the statistical package for social sciences (SPSS), applying the following statistical tests, Test (T) for Single Variance, Pearson r and Man and Whitney test, the results showed the following: Obstacles to the use of special educational techniques in the teaching of children with intellectual disabilities in the education teachers of some localities of Khartoum State are of a small degree.

There are statistically significant differences among special education female teachers in the size of the obstacles to the use of special educational techniques in the teaching of children with intellectual disabilities (in favor to years of experience and training courses).

One of the most important recommendations is to work on the provision of special educational techniques in all centers and programs of special education, with the need to train the teachers on how to use special educational techniques.