The National Center for
Community Rehabilitation held lectures about disability
targeted 63 students of the secondary level in Ahmad Shauqi
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.
The lectures, held for 2 days
in the amount of 2 hours a day, handled defining disability,
its causes and types, and individual dissimilarities between
the disabled and the normal, and between the disabled
themselves. Also, Mr. Hany Abu Zaid, rehabilitation
consultant of the NCCR, stated that recognizing the
individual dissimilarities between children in the first
step for building self-confidence for the disabled child,
especially the educational, social, psychological, and even
physical aspects of the disabled person.
Additionally, Abu Zaid
discussed the role of the school's administration in
providing aiding services for the disabled and different
training publications for dealing with the disabled, and
distributing them among teachers continually. He also
highlighted the magnitude of cooperation with civil
community organizations concerned with the disabled and with
the family to put plans for homeschooling.
He also spoke in detail about
the cerebral palsy and death of cerebral cells, pointing
that the death of cerebral cells can be caused by a strong
stroke or psychological trauma which leads to the death of
cerebral cells.
At the end of the lectures,
the female students made an evaluation for the lectures by
evaluation form, in addition to the evaluation done by the
Directorate of Education through asking the students.
It is worthy to mention that
the female students who attended the lectures were
representatives of the majority of classes of the school, in
the purpose of forming a small and aware society to spread
the experience to the rest of the students as well as to
their families.