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Today, Thursday, the 27th of October 27, 2022, under the auspices of Professor Dr. Abdelaziz Konsowa, the Taha Hussein Center for Students with Disabilities at Alexandria University hosted Parliament Member Hoda Abdelsattar, a designated member of the House of Representatives for the Coordination of Youth Parties and Politicians (member of the Social Solidarity Committee), to discuss the problems and challenges facing the center’s students and their parents.
Dr. Mahmoud Farag, vice president of the center, indicated that it aims to integrate students of determination and disabilities into civil society as they are part of the community, pointing out that the center promotes the services provided to students and the various events held to facilitate their integration into the Alexandrian society.
He explained that the center serves Alexandria University's both undergraduate and postgraduate students with disabilities, as it includes more than 1,600 deaf, with speech disability, physically-disabled, and visually-impaired students, among other integration students. During the meeting, Dr. Farag highlighted the services and facilities provided to the students through 9 different departments, such as the Student Affairs Department, which handles all student admissions and paperwork, another department that converts lectures and textbooks into Braille language, as well as the Audio Library Department, which converts printed books to audio recordings, the Arts Department which includes a theatre group of visually-impaired, deaf, and mental disability students, and the Library department, which includes books in history, Islamic studies among various other fields.
Ms. Hoda Abdelsattar stressed during the meeting that the House of Representatives seeks to improve the conditions of students with disabilities, develop radical solutions to their problems, raise their skills and integrate them into society through many activities and training programs. She also pointed out the importance of raising social awareness on how to interact with people with disabilities, in order to avoid exposing them to psychological problems. The PM held an open dialogue with the students' parents to discuss their requests and needs.