The Impact of Using Individual Educational Plan in Alleviating of Behavioral Problems Among Intellectually Disabled

Department of Education, Faculty of Science and Arts, Northern Border University, Rafha, KSA.

ABSTRACT

The current study aims at investigating the impact of using the individual educational plan in alleviating some of the behavioral problems among the educable intellectually disabled students in Rafha Province. To achieve this aim, the researcher developed an individual educational plan that includes a group of activities inside and outside the school. The activities include behavior and social skills. The researcher explained and discussed the plan with a group of experts involved in applying it. The study sample consists of an experimental group and a control group. Each group consists of six educable intellectually disabled students who attend a special education school in Rafha Province in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The IQ of the members of the two groups varied between (55-69) on the Wechsler scale. They aged (7) to (10) years according to the school's records. Their mean is (8.75), and the standard deviation is (1.13). Before applying the individual educational plan, the researcher used Burks scale (Alqareoti and Jarar, 1987). Then the researcher applied the scale after (8) weeks of implementing the plan. The plan was conducted during the second semester of the academic year 2020. After examining the study’s hypotheses using the Wilcoxon test and Mann–Whitney test and finding the Z-Value, it was found that there are statistically significant differences in the gravity of the behavioral problems between the grades’ mean rank of the experimental group before and after applying the individual educational plan in favor of the post-test.

Keywords: Individual Educational Plan , Behavioral Problems , Educable Intellectually Disabled Students

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SALEH E A A. The Impact of Using Individual Educational Plan in Alleviating of Behavioral Problems Among Intellectually Disabled . Journal Of Organizational Behavior Research 2020;5(2):166-87

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