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First public school for students with learning disabilities opens |
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Wednesday, 21 September 2011 23:30 |
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The first public school for students with learning disabilities opened today as part of the Ministry of Education's integration project.
An orientation was held on the sideline of inaugurating Al-Sadeem Elementary School for Boys; specialized in severe learning disabilities, for staffers.
The integration project is supervised by the Center of Child Evaluation and Teaching and is sponsored by the health development fund of the Endowments Public Secretariat.
The project's team leader Dr. Issa Jassem, in a speech, highlighted different categories of learning disabilities, as well as teaching methods and challenges facing children with such hurdle.
He pointed out that the project is first of its kind in Kuwait, as it aims at integrating children with learning disabilities with their normal peers in public schools.
"The project is working on rehabilitating and training 28 crews in Mubarak Al-Kabir Educational District, in order for them to obtain their education quality certificate from a British consultancy body," Jassem concluded.
Learning disabilities include several disorders, in which a person has difficulty learning in a typical manner, usually caused by an unknown factor or factors.
The unknown factor is the disorder that affects the brain's ability to receive and process information. People with a learning disability have trouble performing specific types of skills or completing tasks if left to figure things out by themselves or if taught in conventional ways. - Kuna
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