مستوي تمكين أسر الأطفال ذوي الإعاقة في الأردن في ضوء بعض المتغيرات

Abstract EN

The purpose of this study is to explore the level embowering the families of disabled children in Jordan and a proposed model for Empowerment.

The sample of the study consisted of (120) families of Mental Disability children, Autism, movement disability, audio disability and Visual disability as follows: (40) families with mental disabled children, (20) families for each kind of disability such as Autism, movement disability, audio disability and Visual disability.

The sample was chosen purposefully from the families that agreed to participate in this study after inviting all the families of disabled Children to participate in this study.

Moreover, The sample consisted of (50) families with normal children studying in regular schools close to special needs Centers, therefore, the sample consisted of (170) families.

To achieve the aim of this study the researcher prepared an Arabized form of Family empowerment scale.

The researchers calculated reliability and validity of this tool then administrated it on participants.

The findings of the study indicated that the level of the kind of empowerment and the expression of empowerment was moderate for all disabled children families included in this study.

Furthermore, There were significant statistical differences at the level of (α= 0.05) between the means of the kind of empowerment andthe means of expression except for the domain of behavior in expression about empowerment between the families of disabled children and the families of normal children, such that families of normal children had greater levels of kind of empowerment and of expression of empowerment.

The findings of the study showed that There were significant statistical differences at the level of (α= 0.05) in the level of empowerment for families of disabled children due to the disability type variable.

Moreover, the findings showed that there were no significant statistical differences at the level of (α= 0.05) in the level of empowerment between the family with male disabled children and the families with female disabled children.

While, there were significant statistical differences at the level of (α= 0.05) in the level of empowerment of the families of disabled children due to the educational level of parents.

The findings of the study showed that there were no significant statistical differences at the level of (α = 0.05) in the level of empowerment for the families with disabled children due to the social status of parents.

There were no significant statistical differences at the level of (α = 0.05) in the level of empowerment for the families with disabled children due to economical status of the family.