A comparative study between special education and healthy children on a number of the most important basic motor skills at the ages of (6-9) years.

Abstract

The importance of the current study lies in examining and comparing the motor skills of normal children and children with special needs in the sample studied.The research problem focused on a comparative study between healthy individuals and those with special needs in some basic motor skills, with the aim of arriving at scientific findings that researchers can present to those responsible for educating and training people with special needs, so that they can benefit from them in their preparation and rehabilitation.The current research aims to:- Identify some of the basic motor skills possessed by special education and healthy children.- Identify the differences in some basic motor skills and functional variables between special education and healthy children.The researchers used the descriptive approach using a comparative approach, as it is appropriate for the nature of the current research.The current research sample included (150) children, (75) healthy children and (75) children with special needs, who were randomly selected from schools in Mosul (Saeed bin Jubair, Al-Arqam, and Hassan Al-Basri).The researchers concluded the following:- Normal children outperformed special needs children in variables such as balance, running, jumping, hopping, and agility