The National Center for
Community Rehabilitation concluded lectures about disability
targeted 44 students of the secondary level Abu Thar El-Gafari
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, 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, insisted that educating the disabled
in normal schools with normal students helps them much in
coping with isolation from the society. He also pointed that
integration as a new philosophy in the special education
emerged as a result to the existence of private and interior
associations which restricted and isolated the disabled
children from their society.
Additionally, Abu Zaid
discussed the role of the school's administration stating
that the main thing it could do for the disabled is offering
a resources room where the disabled can be offered special
assistance from specialists. He also discussed the role of
the educational advisor regarding the school's
administration from on side, and his role with the students
including the disabled ones, and with the Ministry of
Education where a direct contact is necessary. He added that
the educational advisor of the school must communicate with
the family to put a plan to rehabilitate one of the family
members to help the disabled in his familial environment.
From the questions of the
students, they mentioned epilepsy and how to deal with
epileptic people, as well as laws and rights of the
disabled.
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.