The research aims to identify the level of the necessary needs of
families of children with mental Retardation in the province of
Damascus under Syrian crisis, and the knowledge of the differences in
the level of their needs, according to the vari
ables (sex, educational
level). The sample research of (222) person from parents of children
with mental Retardation were Selected purposely of centers and
associations of government and private special education in the
province of Damascus, and applied them to assess the needs of families
of disabled children's scale (Bailey & Simeonsson.1998) which
developed by al-Khatib and Hassan (2000) after verifying of validity
and reliability.
