Bahraini schools provide a safe and welcoming environment for students on the spectrum, with bullying against them at a low level, according to a new research.
The survey, conducted by Arabian Gulf University (AGU) Master’s student Fatema Fardan, however, found that at least some autistic children had to put up with verbal bullying and called for preventive programmes to tackle the cases.
She surveyed 90 male and female teachers from public and private schools and found no significant differences in bullying trends based on the educator’s qualifications, experience, training, gender, or school type.
Ms Fardan is a researcher at Learning Difficulties and Developmental Disabilities Programme at the AGU’s College of Education, Administrative and Technical Sciences. She adopted a comparative descriptive methodology as part of the requirements for a Master’s degree in Autism, and applied a scale to measure various forms of bullying.
She explained that bullying takes multiple forms – verbal, physical, social bullying, cyberbullying and damage to personal property.
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