Mainstreaming Camps Role in Developing the Social Competence of Students with Disabilities

The study aimed to determine mainstreaming camps role in developing the social competence of students with disabilities by identifying mainstreaming camps role in achieving the dimensions of social competence, which include the ability to form social relationships, the ability to confront, the ability to cooperate positively with normal peers, and also developing mutual understanding of feelings among students with disabilities, This study is one of the descriptive studies that relied on using the comprehensive social survey method for social worker in all groups of the Baltim Summer Camp for students of higher and intermediate institutes, numbering (34) individuals, as well as the comprehensive social survey of students with disabilities in the same camp groups, numbering (62) individuals. The data collection tools were represented in (a questionnaire for social specialists / a questionnaire for students with disabilities). The study concluded that the level of determine mainstreaming camps role in developing the social competence of students with disabilities, as determined by students with disabilities, was average, while it was high from the point of view of social worker. It also became clear that mainstreaming camps role in developing the skill of establishing social relationships and developing mutual understanding of feelings was high.