Parents’ Satisfaction With the Services Provided to Their Students With Mild Intellectual Disabilities in Special Education Schools in the State of Kuwait

Fahad Al-Malaabi

Abstract


The current study aimed at the level of parents’ satisfaction with the services provided to their children with mild intellectual disabilities in special education schools in the State of Kuwait. The study sample was chosen by the available intentional method, and the study sample consisted of 120 guardians of male students with intellectual disabilities in the State of Kuwait for the academic year 2022/2023. To achieve the goals of study, the researcher constructed the tool and reliability and validity were obtained. The results showed that the total mean level of parents’ satisfaction with the services provided to their children with mild intellectual disabilities in special education schools in the State of Kuwait was (1.84), with a mean level. The results also indicated that there were statistically significant differences in all sub-domains of the measure of parents’ satisfaction with the services provided to their children with mild intellectual disabilities in special education schools in the State of Kuwait, due to the educational qualification variable. The study recommended identifying the opinions of parents about the nature of the services provided to their children with mild intellectual disabilities in Kuwait.


Keywords


Parents’ satisfaction; Services provided to their children with mild intellectual disabilities; Special education schools; The State of Kuwait

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/13071

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