Arab Educational Information Network

Interest in motherhood and childhood is regarded as one of the modern areas in psychology through the study of social behavior of human and investigating the importance of social relations between children. Group adjustable behavior has a role in the life of individuals. Moreover, the process of educating the child to integrate their physical, cognitive, psychological, and social growth is an important process that has its effects on the overall personality. The study intended to build a scale to assess behavioral adjustment in slow learning third elementary schoolgirls. The study sample consisted of 51 schoolgirls with a slow learning capacity from the schools of Diyala Province for the study season 2013-2014. T-test for two samples and Pearson's Correlation Coefficient were the statistical devices of the study. The results revealed that slow learning schoolgirls are in need of behavioral adjustment. They are also in need of utilizing modern technology like computers in special education schools, as well as urging the sponsors of those schools to follow suitable educational methods with slow learners. The researcher suggested conducting workshops for guides, teachers, and special education teachers for developing and training them on growing positive behaviors and teaching parents the right way of dealing with slow learning schoolgirls to develop their behavioral adjustment. The researcher also suggested conducting a similar study that includes other elementary educational stages; a study that discovers the relation between behavioral adjustment and the teachers' behavior in special education classrooms as well as spreading guidance awareness throughout media and providing educational and social services for special education learners "slow learners". (Published Abstract)