مشكلات تشخيص الطلبة ذوي صعوبات التعلم من وجهة نظر اختصاصي صعوبات التعلم في المملكة العربية السعودية

Abstract EN

This study aimed at identifying diagnosis problems of students with learning disabilities from the perspective of learning disabilities’ (LD) specialists in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

The study was conducted on a sample of 63 LD specialists working in public education.

The study instrument was a questionnaire that included 52 items distributed over four dimensions (learning environment, measures, procedures before diagnosis, and students).

Means, weight means, and standard deviation were computed.

Variance analysis, percentages and correlation coefficients were also calculated.

The study revealed that there are difficulties in the diagnosis of students with learning disabilities from the perspective of LD specialists in the above 4 areas.

In addition, qualifications or experience make no statistically significant differences between LD specialists in identifying the diagnosis problems of such students.

In light of the study results, a number of recommendations are reached with the purpose of reducing these problems.