On the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, we highlight the significant impact of the Israeli war in Lebanon on the humanitarian conditions of the persons with disabilities,from the loss of livelihoods to the deprivation of essential services and the lack of accessible displacement shelters that meet their needs. We salute the resilience of the…
Protection and Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities Emergency Response and Recovery Brochure كتيّب حول حماية الأشخاص ذوي الإعاقة وكيفية دمجهم في المجتمع والاستجابة لحالات الطوارئ ومساعدتهم على التعافي Persons with Disabilities Emergency Response Checklist
Author: Grace Khawam, Steering Committee Member of the Disability Hub She was born in the Golden Era. She was as beautiful as the sunshine in fields of wheat on a hot summer day. A happy childhood, playfully spent in carnival-like markets full of colored silk, rose water soap, scents of thyme and jasmine…
“Arcenciel is implementing immediately several actions in order to respond to victims’ most critical needs and longer-term ones: 1. Social workers and hundreds of volunteers deployed in the field to assess the needs of affected people supporting in rubble cleaning and providing food kits 2. Medical Aid by providing wheelchair crutches walkers crank beds medications…
For further information, kindly refer to the department website: https://aubmc.org.lb/clinical/Psychiatry/ or contact Dr. Joseph Khoury on the following email address [email protected]
Contact us: Barbir 01-662360 Hamra 01-740056 Mouawad 01- 274312 CMC 1240 EXT 6200
Sesobel will commit to the treatment of children affected by Beirut Blast in terms of Physiotherapy Psychotherapy Respiratory Therapy Speech and Language Therapy Technical Aid Assistance and Home Care Contact us from 08 am till 01 pm on the following number 09-235435 All the services will be done at Sesobel Ain El Rihani since our…
Autism Awareness Association offers for persons affected by the blast free post-trauma therapy psychomotor therapy, and speech therapy. Visit www.aaa-autism.org or dial 76-963849
No matter how close you were to the explosion or far from it, it must have certainly impacted you. Do you feel like talking about it to help yourself or others? “Red Oak”, “Khelkhal”, an initiative at AUBMC, and “Bassma” are here to listen to you and to help you get over these tough moments…
Sesobel will commit to the treatment of children affected by Beirut Blast in terms of Physiotherapy Psychotherapy Respiratory Therapy Speech and Language Therapy Technical Aid Assistance and Home Care Contact us from 08 am till 01 pm on the following number 09-235435 All the services will be done at Sesobel Ain El Rihani since our…
School and Vocational Community for Individuals with Special Needs. We are present in Mansourieh to support special needs students and their families after Beirut explosion Services: Social and Emotional Support Daily Hot dishes distribution Food boxes and water distribution Donate or ask for help by calling 03-901649 or Whatsapp 70- 059841
Grace Khawam, PhD Candidate, PharmD, MPH Centre for Development and Emergency Practice Oxford Brookes University, Headington, Oxford, UK Email: [email protected] Background Exclusion of people with disabilities from the workplace leads to an estimated US$1.37-1.94 trillion annual loss in GDP globally (Metts, 2000), and is the most significant for individuals with intellectual disability (ID), as…
Multilingualism in children has been increasing over the years and the amount of research in this area has almost tripled between in the past 20 years. In Lebanon, children start learning a foreign language, French or English and sometimes both, at Nursery level in private schools and public schools. The Lebanese dialect has been moulded over the years…
Research Aims and Objective The proposed research aims to broaden our insights and awareness of the educational needs of wide spectrum of users including individuals with different learning needs, international students and those with different age group and ethnic backgrounds in order to provide inclusive educational strategies and recommendations to cater for these diverse needs.…
This study explores the experience of people who are faced with displacement, disability, and deafness simultaneously: Deaf refugees from Syria, Palestine, Iraq, and elsewhere who are in Jordan and Lebanon. The focal point is the agency of Deaf refugees in how they navigate barriers, vulnerabilities, stigma, and marginalization and make strategic decisions to meet their…
The Classification Workshop entitled: “Disability Assessment and Determination in Lebanon” was organized in February 27, by the Centre for Lebanese Studies at the Lebanese American University in collaboration with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia UN ESCWA Beirut and the International Committee of the Red Cross ICRC. This workshop was part of…
A Consultation Workshop was organized by the Centre for Lebanese Studies at the Lebanese American University for a group of academics and representatives of NGOs, to develop the main recommendations in terms of inclusive education that will be addressed to the Center for Educational Research and Development CERD for the new curriculum strategy. The participants discussed the problems and the barriers preventing children with disabilities from…
The Centre for Lebanese Studies at the Lebanese American University organised a series of workshops in Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine as part of an international network, ‘Disability Under Siege’, which aimed to holistically investigate research needs on disability and education. “Disability Under Siege” is in collaboration with University of Birmingham and Birmingham City University in…
