Central Coherence and its Relationship to some Language Skills among Children with Mild Mental Disabilities

Massoud, Amira  E.

doi:10.21608/jsre.2023.244320.1612

Central Coherence and its Relationship to some Language Skills among Children with Mild Mental Disabilities

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Amira E. Massoud

Faculty of Education, Al Qassim University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

10.21608/jsre.2023.244320.1612

Abstract

The study aimed to reveal the relationship between central coherence and language skills in children with mild mental disabilities, in addition to verifying the differences in central coherence and language skills according to the gender variable (male - female) and the possibility of predicting language skills through central coherence in children with mental disabilities. Mini. The number of participants in the study was (100) children with mild mental disabilities, whose ages ranged between (9-12) years, with an arithmetic mean of (10.95) and a standard deviation of (0.64). To collect data, two scales of central coherence and language skills were prepared. The results revealed that there is a significant and positive correlation between central coherence and language skills among children with mild mental disabilities. In children with mild mental disabilities.

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Educational psychology

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