English abstract
This study aimed to identify the impacts of the Coronavirus pandemic on the mental health
of Omani students with learning disabilities (SLDs) from the perspective of their parents.
The study sample consisted of 288 males and female SLDs. These students were enrolled in
the learning disabilities program in first-cycle schools at Muscat Governorate, Oman. This
study followed the mixed methods research (quantitative and qualitative). In the quantitative
research, parents of SLDs responded to the mental health scale, which consisted of 27 items
distributed to four domains related to sleep disorders, depression, fear, and anxiety. The
results indicated that the impacts of the Coronavirus pandemic on the mental health of SLDs
came at an average level on all domains of the scale. There were statistically significant
differences according to the gender in favor of females. The results also showed that there
were no statistically significant differences due to category of learning disabilities. In
qualitative research; personal interviews were conducted with 10 mothers of SLDs. The
results of qualitative data analysis showed that there were psychological impacts of the
Coronavirus on SLDs. These results were consistented with the results of the quantitative
data. The study recommended designing counseling programs to reduce the impacts of the
Coronavirus on SLDs, and conducting a review of literature to identify the impacts of the
pandemic on SLDs in Arab society.
