Instruments
Descriptive form
Twelve questions were included to identify the descriptive characteristics of children and their mothers. These were age, gender, marital status, education level, mother’s work status, economic status, presence of any other helper to care for the child, presence of any other disabled children, whether the child attended primary education, the duration of private education provided to the child and the number of children in the family. Also, two open-ended questions were asked in which the mothers were asked to state the difficulties they experience in the care of their disabled child as well as the situations in which they need to receive support. The answers given to these questions were later classified.