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“Hands That Speak” campaign, July 2020

The campaign’s objectives are to make community members aware of the existence of deaf-blind children (people with hearing-visual disabilities), to demonstrate their ability to learn and integrate into society, to educate specialists in the fields of education, psychology, childhood, and disability about the ability of deaf-blind children to learn if they are provided with an appropriate educational environment, and to…

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“You Have the Right to Learn” initiative with the Ministry of Education 2015-2016

The Foundation presented this initiative to the Ministry of Education in 2015, and aimed to advocate for the right of children with double and multiple disabilities and deafblindness to free, quality public education. The Foundation presented a project to open the first 4 classrooms for deaf-blind children and those with dual and multiple disabilities in Egypt. In August 2016, the…

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Preparing a training package approved by the Professional Academy for Teachers

The first training package was prepared to train teachers in Egypt on strategies for educating children with dual and multiple disabilities and deafblind people, entitled “Rehabilitation and Education of Deafblind Children and People with Multiple Disabilities,” and it was approved and accredited by the Professional Academy for Teachers at the Ministry of Education.

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