The NCCR concluded
lectures about disability targeted 44 students of the
secondary level at Al-Majeda Waselah School in Gaza. These
activities come under the plan proposed by the Awareness and
Guidance Program in the Center to the Ministry of Education
and which targets school students in the Prep. and secondary
levels by providing awareness and guidance about disability.
Additionally, supervisors from the special education in the
Directory of Education, the school's headmistress, and 5
lady-teachers attended the lectures.
The lectures, held
for 2 days in the amount of 2 hours a day, handled defining
disability, its causes and types, ways of early detection
and prevention of disability, and defining integration of
the disabled and its importance. Also, Mr. Hany Abu Zaid,
rehabilitation consultant of the NCCR, pointed that what is
meant by integration is completeness, naturalization and
merging the disabled children in normal schools. He added
that the integration's social perfectness means giving them
the chance to live in the community after graduation with
the right of having jobs.
Abu Zaid discussed
the psychological significance for integration which gives
them self-confidence and adaptation with others and with the
society, in addition to the correct language and
pronunciation, ability to converse, and ability to build
relationships. Integration has psychological impacts on the
parents and family of the disabled in easing their suffering
and making them accept him and take care of him, in addition
to their acceptance to the society around them which will
look positively to the family.
Abu Zaid also
tackled what the administration of the school can do for the
disabled like offering assistive services, especially
services inside classes, using aiding educational materials
and equipments, and adapting the schools to facilitate the
integration like classes, bathrooms, and playgrounds.
He also handled ways
which facilitate the collective education like workshops for
teachers and mothers to enlighten them about the importance
of collective education, and merging the disabled in the
social activities like summer camps, clubs, parties and
trips. Furthermore, he insisted on the role of media like
press, radios, and TVs in clarifying objectives of
collective education and grabbing the attention of the
society to the disabled and their problems, and working on
solving them.