Adapting the yard of the autistic children center according to learning in nature approach and its effect on them from the point of view of the centers' specialists and parents

The research project aims to introduce a model for adapting the yard of the Autistic Children?s Center according to learning in nature approach. The study will employ the descriptive approach, and the study sample will consist of a specialist in the Dar Al Aman Center of the Ministry of Social Development in the Governorate of Muscat, as their perceptions and practices of education in nature will be identified. In rehabilitating children with autism, the study will also conclude with a product that is to build a guide for how to adapt centers of autistic children according to the requirements of the theory of education in nature that benefits those in charge of these centers in the Sultanate of Oman. Consequently, the guide will be applied to the courtyard of the Dar Al-Aman Center to be an example that can be referred to from the rest of the centers in order to benefit from it in developing the yards of their centers. That will lead to an increase in the link between these centers and this theory, which previous literature has revealed its great positive effect on autistic children. Data will be collected through several quantitative and qualitative tools, which are interview and observation. First, the perceptions of the specialists about education in nature theory and its benefits will be explored. Then, a guide for how to design the yard according to the learning in nature theory will be developed with the help of space and agriculture engineers. After that, an observation list will be designed in order to identify the changes that occurred to autistic children during the use of this yard in addition to conducting an interviews with center's specialist and parents.