Partners: Centre for Lebanese Studies, Disability Under Siege About the project: The project focuses on education provision for children with disabilities in contexts of conflict and crisis, aiming to address the challenge that most children with disabilities never go to school. The project activities focus specifically on the different contexts in Palestine (West…
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…
This report was written by the Inclusive Social Development Section (ISDS) of the Social Development Division (SDD) of the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA). It is based on qualitative interviews, field research, and a summary study carried out by Dr. Maha Shuayb, Nader Ahmad and Samira Chatila at the Centre for Lebanese…