8. Challenges of Remote Learning for Students with Disabilities during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Perspective of Students Enrolled in Basic Schools Affiliated with the Second Directorate of Education in Amman

Abstract

Students with Disabilities face educational challenges in their normal daily educational process, but recently Corona pandemic has imposed extra challenges that restricted their education.  However, this study aimed to discover the obstacles face students with disabilities during distance learning. The study sample consisted of (63) students from the basic stage students in the second Amman education district who study during the scholastic year (2020/2021). As well as (12) students selected randomly from the study sample were interviewed. A questionnaire of distance learning obstacles was used, and it consisted of (25) items, and an interview tool consisting of (3) questions was used as well, and their validity and reliability were identified. The results of the study showed that the obstacles facing students with SN reached to high degree, and the male suffer from distance learning obstacles more than female as well as visual impairment. More than other obstacles, and the interview reveal that the most important of these obstacles are the lack of applications that support the learning of students with SN, the limitation of educational materials provided to students with SN to general ideas of lessons, the lack of environmental facilities and infrastructure that support their learning, and the lack of sustainable learning during the Corona pandemic, The study recommended providing environmental facilities and infrastructure of education to students with SN through distance learning.

Keywords: Distance Learning Obstacles, Students with Special Needs. The Corona Pandemic