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Report On Two Days Orientation Workshop On Disability Issues 11-12 May, 2012 in Charsada

A two-day orientation workshop on disability issues was held in Charsada on May 11-12, 2012. Sixty teachers from primary and secondary schools in Charsada participated. The workshop covered topics such as the types and causes of disabilities, the challenges faced by people with disabilities in society and daily life, and how to promote independent living. It also discussed inclusive education and how families and others can support people with disabilities through counseling and having a positive attitude. The goal was to increase awareness and understanding of disability issues.

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Report On Two Days Orientation Workshop On Disability Issues 11-12 May, 2012 in Charsada

A two-day orientation workshop on disability issues was held in Charsada on May 11-12, 2012. Sixty teachers from primary and secondary schools in Charsada participated. The workshop covered topics such as the types and causes of disabilities, the challenges faced by people with disabilities in society and daily life, and how to promote independent living. It also discussed inclusive education and how families and others can support people with disabilities through counseling and having a positive attitude. The goal was to increase awareness and understanding of disability issues.

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Orientation workshop on Disability issues 11-12 May, 2012 in Charsada

Chef International has organized Two days orientation workshop on Disability issues 1112 May, 2012 in Charsada the 60 Teachers from different primary and secondary school participated from Charsada. Mr. Asim Zafar was the main resource person from Saaya Association in this workshop. On a very first day of workshop topics which were covered based on basic information like, about disability, Impairment and its types, the participants are also learnt about the individual issues of persons with disabilities and especially the response of society towards the person with disabilities. These topics meant to educate participants about the disabilities exist in our society, including the severity of the disabilities in order to create awareness and acceptance among our society for persons with disabilities to survive as an honorable individual without any dependence upon others as well as eliminate the factor of sympathetic attitude in society for person with disability., because the responses of the society towards the person with disability having strong influence, and this workshop aimed to eliminate all these issues, and negative responses of the general mass and to provide a board insight about independent living among Persons with Disabilities just a non-disable person. Acknowledged people about Polio, Spinal cord, visually impaired, Hearing impaired, Muscular Dystrophy, Mental Retardation and CP. The main purpose was to create awareness on comprehensive level about the issues that a Person with Disabilities has to face in their daily life activities, (education, accessibility, discrimination in the families lack of assistive devices, lack of knowledge regarding disability) that they can survive as an independent human beings. In next day sessions participants learnt how we can negotiate with the persons with disabilities which are one of the important elements. So, it was the part of this workshop for the purpose to aware participants that how families and non-disabled people can effectively negotiate with person with disabilities through peer-counseling, group-counseling and positive attitude at the same time negotiation with the families of person with disabilities to expose them to the achievements in the form of role model of independent individual well as to convince them on the benefits of the independent living program. Mr. Asim Zafar also teach them about inclusive education he said that Inclusive education means that all students attend and are welcomed by their neighborhood schools in ageappropriate, regular classes and are supported to learn, contribute and participate in all aspects of the life of the school. It does not mean that students with certain characteristics are grouped together in separated classrooms for all or part of the school day. Within regular classrooms, opportunities are developed for all students to learn together even though some students may have different education goals. In the end Mr. Asim Zafar thanked of Chef International for organizing such an innovative training workshop for Teachers

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