ORCID Identifiers

0000-0003-0411-1720

Document Type

Article

Source of Publication

Education Sciences

Publication Date

4-17-2023

Abstract

Behavioral problems cause limitations in the social skills of children without disabilities and affect the functionality of children with disabilities. The Emirati child adaptation scale (ECAS) was developed in the UAE to provide reliable and valid information on the behavioral adaptation skills in children with and without intellectual disability (ID). The scale’s item pool consists of 651 items that identify behavioral adaptation deficits across the 10 domain–skill areas of communication, pre-academic, listening, social, self-care, self-orientation, motor skills, operational society, life, and health and safety. The scale was administered to 1542 children with disabilities and 920 children without disabilities. The scale is deemed essential, as it enables psychologists, special education teachers, health professionals, and researchers to implement a reliable psychometric tool of adaptive and behavioral functioning of 1–18-year-old individuals. The development and structure of the Emirati child adaptation scale is described and discussed.

ISSN

2227-7102

Publisher

MDPI AG

Volume

13

Issue

4

Last Page

18

Disciplines

Accessibility | Disability and Equity in Education | Early Childhood Education | Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research | Educational Methods | Elementary Education

Keywords

adaptive behavior, scale, intellectual disability, diagnosis

Scopus ID

https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/21100897500

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Indexed in Scopus

yes

Open Access

yes

Open Access Type

Gold: This publication is openly available in an open access journal/series

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