Special attention to People with Special Abilities at Kafrelsheikh University

31/5/2016

The president Prof Dr Maged el Kemary assures during the dream conference for the people with special abilities that the state pays special attention for the rights of people with special abilities as the constitution assures the insurance of equal educational opportunities for healthy people and the disable inside the educational institutions.

The university has established database that includes the students with special abilities for easy communication with them, engaging them in sports activities and training courses, implementing scientific and recreational trips to raise their scientific, professional, intellectual and recreational competencies and working to integrate them with students in science clubs.

As well, he points out that the roads, streets, sidewalks and constructions at Kafrelsheikh University are designed to facilitate the life of people with special needs and integrate them into society through presenting many services and benefits enjoyed by people with special abilities.

For sidewalks, special passages from yellow tiles are designed on sidewalks with senior longitudinal inscription and at the intersection of yellow lines, there are prominent circles to cross the road through the slope of sidewalk and help the blind for self-reliance as well as rehabilitate sidewalks for the use of people with special needs from the wheelchair users and the sidewalks are also eligible for the elderly.

The elevators and constructions are also equipped to meet the needs of people with special abilities in terms of alarms of guidance calling in the elevator audible and visual and the control keys in the elevator can be used by the persons who use wheelchairs and the bathrooms are also equipped for the people of special needs.

Computer lab is equipped for people with special abilities especially with visual disabilities and a printer for them for the rehabilitation of students with visual abilities on the use of computer programs to help them to understand curriculums as well as facilitate the printing process for the production of scientific researches of the students. Otherwise, the president points out that this will enable them to reach the stage of self-reliance and practical training on “Braille” way in prominent printing, use the sense of hearing to execute commands and give the order to computer to accomplish the task. In addition, a special suite has been specified for them in the library of the Faculty of Arts and an office for the care of people with special abilities and they have get financial support and have been housed in student housing for free. He assures that the university management is eager to represent people with special abilities to assume the leadership positions in the university, so two faculty secretaries are assigned from the disabled

 In the interest of the university to support the abilities of people with special needs and rehabilitate them for labor market, so many training courses will be prepared for them through entrepreneurship unit as well as the organization of training convoys for the center of the disabled in the province.