Employment Challenges among Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder from Their Parents’ Perspective in Saudi Arabia
The study aimed at identifying employment challenges among youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)from their parents’ perspective in Saudi Arabia. ASD Youth Employment Challenges Scale was applied to 85parents of youth with ASD. Results concluded that employment challenges in Saudi Arabia are ASD-...
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| Language: | English |
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Ankara University
2019-12-01
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| Series: | Ankara Üniversitesi Eğitim Bilimleri Fakültesi Özel Eğitim Dergisi |
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| Online Access: | https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/873731 |
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| Summary: | The study aimed at identifying employment challenges among youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)from their parents’ perspective in Saudi Arabia. ASD Youth Employment Challenges Scale was applied to 85parents of youth with ASD. Results concluded that employment challenges in Saudi Arabia are ASD-basedchallenges, ASD youth’s family challenges, work environment challenges, and social challenges. There were nostatistically significant differences between the mean score of the responses of parents of youth with ASD toemployment challenges scale due to parent’s gender, children’s gender, and children’s age. There werestatistically significant differences between the mean score of the responses of parents of youth with ASD toemployment challenges scale due to the variable of receiving financial support, in favor of those who do notreceive support. |
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| ISSN: | 1304-7639 |