Schools for students with special needs
Planning, preparing, implementing and evaluating educational programmes for students with disabilities is of great importance. Everything required to deliver these programmes — financial, technical and administrative — must therefore be provided, enabling students with disabilities to join their peers in programmes suited to their abilities and needs.
Disability department indicators
| Indicator | 2018 | 2016 | 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inclusive schools accessible to students with disabilities | 150 | — | — |
| Schools dedicated to students with disabilities (Academy for the Blind, Al Amal schools for the deaf) | 13 | 12 | 11 |
| Intellectual disability rooms | 27 | 32 | — |
| Students with disabilities enrolled in these schools | 1789 | 1344 | 1100 |
- Providing students with medical aids (wheelchairs, crutches, hearing aids, Braille writing boards, and more).
- Facilitating the inclusion of students with disabilities in inclusive schools.
- Helping equip inclusive schools to receive students with disabilities according to their needs.
- Providing inclusive schools with specialised, qualified staff trained to teach students with disabilities.
Preparing students with disabilities for lifelong learning and motivating them toward professions of steadily rising added value, while achieving equal opportunity in education so that the needs of students with special needs are met, increasing their effectiveness and their inclusion in the local community.
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