Deaf children enrolled in public schools [Archives:2006/925/Local News]
By: Nashwan Dammaj
Ibb correspondent
IBB, Feb. 28 ) The Deaf and Dumb Care and Training Society (DDCTS), funded by the Ibb branch of the Social Fund for Development (SFD), conducted an awareness campaign advocating society's help to enroll deaf children in public schools.
The Feb. 18-March 6 awareness campaign is viewed as a successful step toward integrating the handicapped into society.
The first week of the campaign saw distribution of publications and brochures, hanging banners and marching in the streets with amplifiers. The DDCTS coordinated with mosque preachers to discuss the children's problems in Friday sermons, as well as how to receive kind care and treatment from their families and society.
During the second week, visits were made to Al-Dhihar and Al-Mashanna district public schools, such as Al-Saeed Complex and Isma'a School for Girls and Khaled Bin Al-Walid and Al-Farouq schools for boys.
DDCTS Secretary General Ali Hamid Al-Siddiq, who is deaf, gave a speech at the morning assembly in one of the above-mentioned schools, with DDCTS coordinator Mohamed Ali Qied interpreting his words.
During his speech, Al-Siddiq reviewed a number of DDCTS activities and services, as well as its goals. Consultant Nidhal Taha delivered a speech on behalf of the SFD in which she mentioned SFD's policies toward deaf children.
Abdurrahman Othman talked about the auditory handicap and briefed schoolboys on its types, causes and consequences. He also instructed them about the project to integrate deaf children into public schools, stressing they have the right to join public education to get rid of isolation and introversion.
The integration project involves annexing additional classrooms for deaf children in schools targeted by the DDCTS and the SFD.
A comprehensive workshop on the deaf children's integration project is scheduled in the campaign's third week, involving teachers from various public schools, parents of deaf children and the awareness campaign work team.
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