Visual memory of students of special education classes and their ordinary peers in Babil province

Abstract

This research aimed at identifying the level of visual memory among children in special education classes (CSEC) and their normal peers and the significant differences between the levels of visual memory of the subjects according to: (A)- their type (CSEC) and normal peers.(B)- their Gender (males - females). To achieve those aims, the psychometric properties of the adopted test of Abidzaid (2015) were verified. Then, the test was applied to a sample of (200) children, (100) of them were (CSEC) and (100) normal peers. All of them were learning in primary schools in Hila city of Babylon Province – Iraq, during (2015-2016). The obtained data was statistically analyzed by (SPSS) package. The findings were: (1) the visual memory level of (CSEC) was low and high among their normal peers (2) there were significant differences at the level (0.05) between the levels of visual memory of the (CSEC) and those of normal peers, in favor of the normal class children, and between males and females in favor of males children.