Self-Determination Skills of Persons with Intellectual disabilities in Arabic Countries: A Mini-Review

Abstract

Persons with intellectual disabilities suffer different kinds of disorders due to impaired cognitive processes, which hinders their compatibility with life requirements as they are unable to perform their assigned roles and fulfill their needs. This results in an urgent need to develop their skills and to endow them with some compensatory strategies. Self-determination skills are considered one of the major skills needed by persons with intellectual disabilities in order to help them live independently. Self-determination skills are affected by a group of cultural and social variables, as well as other factors like the severity of the disability, the chronological age, gender, and others. Eventually, this mini review aims at shedding light on some important matters in related literature, clarifying some research points that were not tackled in it suggesting future studies that were not referred to in it, and drawing some recommendations related to the topic of the review.