Counseling Needs for Students with Special Needs at the University

Abstract

The current study aimed to identify the counseling needs of students with disabilities at the University of Nizwa in Oman, and to determine if there are any significant differences of counseling needs of students with disabilities across gender, type of disability, academic year, college and academic degree. The study sample consisted of 32 students. The results indicated that the highest counseling needs are sexual counseling and vocational counseling. Whilst there are no significant differences of counseling needs of students with special needs across gender, college, and academic year, there are significant differences of counseling needs across type of disability due to physical and multiple disabilities, and academic degree due to master degree.