The Level of Daily Life Skills Among Mild Intellectual Disabilities and its Relations to Demographic Variables in Central Sudan - Gezira State, Sudan

Abstract

This study aims to indentify the daily life skills (self-skills, house activities, and community skills) as one of adaptive behavior demontions for learning ability (educable)with intellectual disability EID, and its relations to some demographic variables which are: gender, number of family members, order in family in terms of birth, the parents’ educational level, relationship of family communication with school) in Schools and special education centers in Gezira state, Central Sudan. The study adopted the descriptive method and used the adaptive behavior scale which is prepared by Bandar Nasir Alutaybi (2004). The sample consisted of comprehensive one of (133) educable intellectually disabled (78) males and (55) females. Data were analyzed statistically by using (SPSS) program. The study reveales that: the common characteristic of the daily life skills level with EID being low. There is variation in the level of daily life skills in the three dimensions (self-skills, home activities, and community skills). Statistically significant differences in the level of daily life skills with EID according to the gender variable in favor of males. No statistically significant differences in the level of daily life skills according to a variable (number of family members, Order in the family in terms of birth (first, middle, last, single), parents’ educational level, relationship between family communication to school). The study recommends detecting weaknesses and deficiencies in adaptive behavior skills for people with intellectual disabilities to find ways to address it, provide programs for training and guidance for intellectually disabled parents on daily life skills.