Social Requirements for Empowerment of Persons with Special Needs in Rural Areas of Sharqia Governorate

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Department of Agricultural extension and Rural Society, Faculty of Agriculture, Al-Azhar University,Cairo, Egypt.

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Research objectives: Determine knowledge level of respondents with Special needs of their social empowerment requirements. Availability degree of their empowerment requirements. Benefit from these requirements. Determining the relationship between the studied variables. Knowledge degree of the benefit from the requirements of their social empowerment and Identifying empowerment obstacles, and their suggestions for overcoming it. This research was conducted on a sample of 370 respondents with Special Needs from rural areas of Sharqia Governorate. A questionnaire was used for data collection during April, May and June 2021. Data was disaggregated, quantified and analyzed using numerical inventory tables, iterations, percentages, weighted average and simple correlation, and a chi-squared test (K2). The results were as follows: 1- 45.1% of respondents have a high level of knowledge for their social empowerment  requirements. 2- 47.6% of respondents ware at mid-level category to meet their social empowerment requirements. 3- 53.8% of respondents have average access to social empowerment requirements. A relationship between variables of disability duration, membership in social organizations, number of individuals with disabilities in family. A moral relationship between the educational status, type of disability, professional situation, and knowledge level of their empowerment requirements. The main constraints reduceing empowerment of persons with special needs: The lack of rehabilitation centers for disabled. Opportunities to empower individuals with disabilities in education, learning, work, recreation and use public facilities and services, ware of respondents proposales to over come their obstacles.

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