Arab Educational Information Network

Recently, attempts have appeared to reduce the problem of mentally handicapped reliance on others concerning personal care tasks, especially in clothes and solving them by using educational technological assisting methods. The educational kit is one of the most prominent individual means. Educational kits can be used for clothing culture for the mentally disabled to help them to select clothes that suit their bodies, age, the place and time in which they wear them, and to take care of their clothes leading to self-independence and ability to aesthetic taste in clothing. The results of the study showed the strong impact of the educational kit in developing the skills and cognitive aspects of clothing culture among the mentally handicapped (age 8 to 14 years) due to the diversity of the educational activities and materials provided to them in educational kit and appropriate for each handicapped. In addition, the results revealed the strong impact of the educational kit in the developing the skills and cognitive aspects of clothing culture of mentally handicapped of (14-20) years due to the diversity of the educational activities and materials provided to them in educational kit and appropriate for each handicapped. (Published abstract)