"Education" and "Baseera" organize a training course for teachers of Al-Asmarat district schools on early detection methods for students with visual disabilities
Under the auspices of Dr. Tarek Shawky, Minister of Education and Technical Education, the Ministry organized an extensive training course aimed at raising the awareness of teaching teams and those in charge of the educational process in all schools in the Al-Asmarat district in Cairo about the early detection of students with visual disabilities, in cooperation with the Baseera Foundation for people with visual needs.
The course aims to train teachers and work teams within schools on the skills of dealing with students and students with visual disabilities, in continuation of the work done by the Ministry and Baseera of a comprehensive medical survey of eye diseases for 3,000 students in Al-Asmarat neighborhood schools and the consequent work of the necessary eyeglasses. Disbursing treatment and performing surgeries.
Dr. Hala Abdel Salam, head of the Central Department for Special Education Affairs, confirmed that the ministry’s strategy aims to implement the vision of the President of the Republic in obtaining people with disabilities, especially students, their full educational rights and providing all support for them to obtain these rights, which was the catalyst for cooperation with the Baseera Foundation. In training those in charge of the educational process in all schools of the neighborhood of Asmarat within a series of training courses organized by Education and "Baseera" and aimed at integrating students with visual disabilities in the educational process.
Dr. Hala Abdel Salam participated in the course’s activities by introducing the targets of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Law No. 10 of 18 and its executive regulations of rights in various educational aspects and how educational inclusion is an inherent right for students with disabilities and not a grant or gift from anyone, and that everyone is committed to implementing integration in application The law, and that refraining from inclusion is a clear violation of a legal text corresponding to the application of a penalty, and that a student with a disability has the right to be integrated into the school he wishes to attend without any obstacle from the school itself, and his guardian also has the right to choose the exam method he wants and the approved method Which he prefers to take exams without forcing him to a particular method or method without the other.
For her part, Mrs. Doaa Mabrouk, a member of the National Council for Disability Affairs and Executive Director of the “Baseera” Foundation, confirmed that training the teaching teams and workers in the educational process in all Al-Asmarat district schools on early detection of visual disabilities and raising their awareness about everything related to students from this segment through a method of living The trainees learned about the daily life situations that students with visual disabilities face. The trainees spent hours of training wearing blindfolds and lived the life situations that a blind student goes through inside the classroom and within the walls of his school and realistically touched the needs of this segment.
She pointed out that the training course also included an introduction to the different types of visual disabilities and their impact on the school-age child and the family and the mechanisms for limiting these effects, and how the scientific material can be provided to students with visual disabilities by appropriate educational means to ensure that the entire curriculum reaches these students, and what are the means The different types that enable the teacher in the classroom to communicate and explain the materials to students with visual impairments alongside their fellow students without visual impairments in a way that ensures that everyone achieves the best way, since visual impairment does not affect education.
It is noteworthy that the Ministry of Education and the "Baseera" Foundation had announced their readiness to provide all support and answer any inquiries to the work teams and higher administrations in all schools of the Republic about the obstacles or problems they face in order to integrate students with visual disabilities side by side with students from Non visually impaired in the regular semester.