NCCR in Gaza Holds Disability Lectures in Ahmad Shauqi School

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.