The level of Psychological Stresses Of mothers Of Children With Intellectual Disability according to some variables “A field study in Lattakia city”

The objective of this study is to know the level of psychological stresses of mothers of children with intellectual disability in Lattakia city. it aimed to find differences in the psychological stresses according to some variables : mothers educational level, child's gender , and the child's disability degree. The sample consisted of 34 mothers . The test of Sertawi& Abdul Aziz (1998) had been used. The results indicated that 14.7% of the participants experienced high level of psychological stress, 58.8% experienced medium level and 26.5% didn’t show any symptoms of psychological stresses. The study did not show any notable differences regarding variables: mothers educational levels, child's gender or the child's disability.

Differences in some skills of emotional expression for simple mentally retardation pupils who are integrated and those who are nonintegrated in Hama

This study aims at recognizing the differences in some skills of emotional expression from teachers’ and parents’ perspectives between the simple mentally retardation pupils integrated in first stage in basic learning and those who are nonintegrated. The population consisted of 20 pupils of simple mentally retardation (8-12 years) integrated in public schools in first stage in basic learning, and 20 peer pupils in private centers. Whereas the teachers were selected (15 male/female) in public schools and (10 male/female) in private centers. Parents (80 )are the fathers and mothers of (20) pupils in public schools and (20) pupils in private centers. The study used the descriptive approach by designing a questionnaire to measure the differences in some skills of emotional expression between the simple mentally retardation pupils who are integrated in public schools and nonintegrated pupils who are in private centers. This questionnaire was distributed to teachers and parents. Then the data were analyzed statistically by SPSS. The results were as follows: - There are statistically significant differences between integrated and nonintegrated pupils on all dimensions of the scale for the sake of integrated pupils. - There are statistically significant differences between the means of some skills of emotional expressions (joy, love) according to the variable of gender for the sake of females. - There are statistically significant differences in (anger)for the sake of males.