Arab Educational Information Network

Learning disabilities remain one of the issues that fill the mind of researchers and learners in the field of Special Education. As researchers continue to address these issues in their research and publications so that they can develop or solve the educational and psychosocial problems that result from learning difficulties. Reading difficulties are one of the forms of learning difficulties but it is one of the most famous because it affects a large proportion of children and students with learning difficulties. It is worth noting that the students of learning difficulties have academic educational symptoms that appear on them, including poor academic achievement, as well as shyness and lack of psychosocial adaptation with their families and members of society, as they feel excluded and different. The percentage of students with reading difficulties is large in the State of Kuwait and the researchers continue to search for various ways to solve the psychological and social problems that result from these difficulties. Therefore, this study came with the aim of identifying the extent of psychosocial adaptation among a sample of students with reading difficulties in the State of Kuwait and identifying methods of treating shyness and their low level of psychosocial adaptation. The study sample consisted of (50) students with reading difficulties living in the various governorates and regions in the State of Kuwait. The researcher followed the descriptive analytical approach as it is one of the most important approaches that are followed in theoretical field research that requires restricting the opinions of the research sample. As for the study tools, the researcher has used picture and electronic books and published references dealing with the same topic in order to write the theoretical framework, and the electronic questionnaire tool that the study questions will be distributed to them and then pulled into the SPSS program to analyze the answers statistically and graphically. This study indicated in its results that students with reading difficulties have a very large percentage of shyness and a feeling of individual exclusion from community members and their lack of social integration in the classroom educational and school community. The study also indicated that there is a strong relationship between poor academic achievement and the lack of socio-psychological adaptation for students with reading difficulties in the State of Kuwait. (Published Abstract)