NCCR Concludes Disability Lectures in Abu Thar El-Gafari School

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.