Identify the obstacles to developing University Education programs for students with disabilities in the Republic of Yemen

Abstract

The research aimed to identify the obstacles to developing university education programs for students with disabilities in the Republic of Yemen. To achieve the research objectives, the researcher used the descriptive survey method and applied a questionnaire consisting of (15) paragraphs to a purposive sample of (91) individuals, including faculty members, administrators and students with disabilities. The data were analyzed using appropriate statistical methods. The research reached several results, the most important of which are: the high overall average of the sample members’ responses to the obstacles to developing university education programs for students with disabilities in the Republic of Yemen, as it came at a large degree at the level of the tool as a whole, with an arithmetic mean of (3.99) and a standard deviation of (589). The results showed a shortage in funding and the cessation of financial allocations for the departments of teaching students with disabilities at the Yemeni university, and a delay in keeping pace with Yemeni universities in developing university education programs for students with disabilities. It also showed the absence of statistically significant differences at a significance level of (0.05) between the averages of the sample’s responses attributed to the variables (disability and qualification), while statistically significant differences were found attributed to the variable Sex in favor of males