Education and Training and Services for the Communication and Swallowing Disorders in Egypt: A Short Report

The statistical information that estimates the magnitude of communication disorders among Egyptian children is scarce. At Mansoura University, a prospective study was performed to identify communication disorders among nursery school children in Dakahlia governorate, Egypt to estimate the problem's size among Arabic-speaking Egyptian children (Gad-Allah et al., 2012). A cross-sectional descriptive research design was used to include 852 nursery school children (out of 59000 regularly attending the nursery school) aged between three and less than six years from urban and rural areas and governmental and private nurseries. Two structured questionnaire sheets were designed to identify different types of communication disorders from caregiver and teacher perspectives. [The page range cited (pp. 100-106) on the .pdf is incorrect. The correct page range is pp. 99-105.]