RIYADH:聽 黑料社区鈥檚 Disabled Children鈥檚 Association (DCA) finished its preparations for the new academic year with the completion of its educational programs aimed at developing children鈥檚 mental, cognitive and motor skills.
The DCA鈥檚 centers are getting ready to welcome around 185 new students, who will be enrolled in the preparatory and elementary stages. The association is also housing early intervention children in 11 centers throughout the Kingdom.
鈥淭he DCA鈥檚 centers finished their preparations early in line with the directives of Prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abdul Aziz, chairman of the association鈥檚 board of directors,鈥 said Awadh Al-Ghamdi, the DCA鈥檚 secretary-general.
He added: 鈥淭he association is keeping pace with new technologies by developing the educational care system every year. It continuously adopts new methods for children with special needs by providing the centers with what is necessary for the development of linguistic, social and psychological skills.
鈥淭he DCA held consultative meetings to approve an implementation mechanism by consulting experts from the educational committee at King Saud University about the importance of establishing an innovative resources room in all of the DCA centers.
Al-Ghamdi said: 鈥淭he project will be implemented in cooperation with the Ministry of Education after it is judged by specialists from Saudi universities and adopted as part of the association鈥檚 initiatives. This comes as a continuation of the DCA鈥檚 role in caring for children with special needs for more than 35 years.鈥
The director of the DCA鈥檚 center in Al-Rass governorate presented the project鈥檚 original idea, which included reviewing the centers鈥 educational care programs according to modern educational trends.
A working group, which included a number of specialists, was assigned to the investigation. It presented a final vision to the DCA鈥檚 secretariat with a guide to the project鈥檚 implementation.
