Student needs in public kindergartens, and public primary, preparatory and secondary schools to whom inclusion services are provided in mainstream classrooms, in resources rooms, or in specialized schools are based on a set of services as follows:

 Identifying Students with Disabilities:

This includes evaluation, registration, referral and related procedures, aiming to include students with disabilities into mainstream schools or specialized schools.

Designing and Implementing Inclusive and Diversity Education Programs: 

this depends on the condition of students with disabilities and based on the principle of equal learning opportunities. General education curriculum adaptation includes the following:

1-    Alternatives for Inclusion and Diversity in Education:

such as the educational program developed for students with disabilities, and the suitable environment.

 

2-   Early Intervention:

This includes various services (medical, social, educational, and psychological) to children under the age of six, with a disability or developmental delay, or those prone to delay or disability.

 

3- Resources Room:

It is a specially prepared and equipped classroom annexed to a mainstream school, with appropriate learning aides, tools, games, and furniture, in which students who receive educational inclusion services spend various period or periods of the school day to receive individual education.

 

4-    Co-teaching:

which emerged with the inclusion of all students in the same mainstream classrooms; leading to the need for collaboration between subject teachers and special education teachers, and mutually share knowledge, professional experience, and teaching skills.

 

5-    Curriculum (Individual Educational Plan):

Remedial educational programs designed for individual students or adapted from the existing curricula. The learning environment could also be adapted to suit a special curriculum for students with special educational needs.

 

6-    Individual Educational Program:

A system of guided behavioral and educational objectives aiming directly at developing a student's behavioral and educational skills to improve performance and reach maximum independence in performance, in a manner appropriate to the nature of the behavioral and educational characteristics of groups with disabilities.

 

-  Response for Intervention:

Determined based on an information gathering model to identify, define, and help solve students' learning problems.

 

-   Assistive Technology:

Such as programs, devices, applications, tools, and systems that assist people with various disabilities, including cognitive, physical or sensory disabilities, to learn, be independent, and engage in everyday life.

 

-    Monitoring and evaluating inclusion services:

services are monitored by the school-based special education team, and oversight by the Department of Special Education and Inclusive Education.

 

- Professional Development and Training:

through which special education staff are developed, including school-based staff: (teachers and support services specialists).

 

- School Environment:

The school environment is created is such a manner that meets student needs, such as: (facilities, ramps, elevators, classroom environment).

 

-   Community Partnership:

Building a positive relationship between the school, parents, and relevant community institutions, and developing effective positive partnerships that serve students with disabilities.

 

Contact number with the Department of Special Education and Inclusive Education: 44045541

 

"Roa'a" Center for Assessment, Counselling and Support

Roa'a Center operates under the Department of Special Education and Inclusive Education of the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, It was established in 2015, and provides quality services in assessment, counselling, and support, and seeks to create an integrated collaborative community partnership with the families of students with disabilities and the local community.

The center conducts comprehensive evaluation of new students with disabilities and those referred from schools, to ascertain their educational needs in a suitable environment, according to students' needs for special education and support services. The Center is staffed with a multidisciplinary team comprising qualified specialists in physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech and language, psychotherapy, and special education. The registration of new students are completed in coordination with the Department of School Affairs of the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, based on the geographical zone, the appropriate educational environment for students with disabilities, based on their abilities, and in coordination with parents.

Contact numbers at the Center: 44046161 - 44046170

Hotline: 33315769

Center Address: Madinat Khalifa North, Zone 32 - "Roa'a" Center for Assessment, Counselling and Support - Building No. 5 Street Number: 847