درجة معرفة المعلمين في المرحلة الابتدائية في مدينة مكة باضطرابات التواصل في ضوء بعض المتغيرات

Abstract EN

The purpose of this study was to investigate the knowledge level of primary grades teachers in the elementary stage about communication disorders in the light of some variables, which are teachers’ educational experience, gender, area of specialization and training courses.

The community of the study consisted of all primary grade male and female teachers (from the first grade to the third grade) in the elementary public schools in Makkah, while the samples of the study were 196 teachers consisting of 103 males and 93 females from the primary grade teachers.

The study has used the descriptive survey research approach and an instrument, prepared by the researcher, which was applied to the samples to assess the teachers’ knowledge level of the communication disorders.

The study results have showed that the arithmetic means ranged between (0.63-0.69), where the fluency disorders criterion ranked the first place with the highest average of 0.69, while the speech disorders criterion ranked in the last place with an average of 0.63.

The results have also indicated the presence of statistically significant differences (α = 0.05) in all aspects attributed to the variable of area of specialization.

These differences were in the favor of special education specialization.

Regarding the variables of educational experience, gender and training courses, there were no statistically significant differences at the significance level of (α = 0.05).