New trends in research on the use of digital media by people with special needs: a critical analytical view

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minia university, faculty of specific education

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Using digital media represents an important opportunity for people with special needs to integrate into society without feeling the negative impact of the disability on communication processes and interaction with other users of those sites. The current research assessed the new trends in the use of digital media by people with special needs and a critical analytical study was conducted from the second level. A Secondary Analysis was done to monitor the most important issues, research topics, types of studies, methods, research tools, and theoretical frameworks dealt with by Arab and foreign studies. In addition to the most important results, and to reach a future vision for the research agenda on the use of digital media by people with special needs. To achieve this, (42) Arab studies and (45) foreign studies published during the period from 2015 to 2021 were analyzed. And the study concluded: There is an agreement between Arab and foreign studies in paying attention to studies of the use of digital media by people with special needs in general, with the different variables that were discussed, and descriptive research dominated the studies that were conducted. Analyzing them, whether Arab or foreign, and the questionnaire was the most widely used tool in Arab studies.

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