EMOTIONAL ADAPTATION AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO SOCIAL INTERACTION WITH PEERS AMONG CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES ENROLLED IN EARLY INTERVENTION CENTRRS IN AMMAN

The current study aimed to identify the level of emotional adaptation and social interaction with peers among children with disabilities (autism spectrum disorder, mental disability, visual disability, hearing disability and physical disability) enrolled in early intervention centers in Amman.The study sample consisted of (109) children with disabilities from the age group (2-6.5)years, and of different degrees of disability, and of both sexes, where the number of males was ( 63) and the number of females was ( 46) from the study community, and they were selected intentionally .To achieve the study objective, the dimensions of emotional adaptation and social interaction with peers from the Social Competence and Behavior Scale for preschool children were applied.The results of the study indicated that the level of emotional adaptation and social interaction with peers among these children was at an average level.There was also a high positive correlation between emotional adaptation and social interaction with peers, as the correlation coefficient reached (0.656), and there were no statistically significant differences at the significance level (a=0.05) for samples of emotional adaptation and interaction with peers among these students according to the gender variable, as the value of "t" for the emotional adaptation dimension reached (0.077) and for the interaction with peers dimension (-1.779), which are statistically insignificant values at the significance level (0.05).The results also indicated the presence of apparent differences in the arithmetic averages of emotional adaptation.And interaction with peers among these students according to the variables of age and severity of disability .