Measuring Effectiveness of the Proposed Curriculum for Persons with Disabilities in Improving Their Life Skills in Jordan

Abstract

The current study aimed to reveal the effectiveness of a proposed curriculum for people with disabilities in light of global standards and trends in improving life skills in a sample of children with disabilities, and the sample of (10) children with minor mental disabilities was selected in the intended manner of the Al Manar Center for Intellectual Development in Amman, Jordan. The current study relied on the quasi-experimental approach, to achieve the objectives of the current study by measuring the impact of a Proposed Curriculum for people with disabilities in the light of standards and global trends in improving their life skills. The results were obtained are that there are statistically significant differences between the average marks of the study members in the pre and post-measurements on the life skills scale in favor of the post-measurement, which indicates the effectiveness of the proposed curriculum for people with disabilities in improving their life skills. The study recommended adopting the curriculum that was proposed by the centers for children with disabilities, due to its effectiveness in improving the life skills of children with disabilities. In addition to expanding this study by conducting more studies on a larger sample of children with simple mental disabilities in order to generalize the results more and for a longer period of time and obtain more accurate results.