Personal Reflection #2 – Integrating Special needs Individuals into society

In our life there are a people who are with special needs and they are living with us normally.What doe special needs mean? Many people think “special needs” are medical, physical, or emotional disabilities. But within the foster care and child welfare systems, a child or youth with special needs has a factor or condition (uniquely defined by each State) that may involve any of the following:

• Ethnic or racial background

• Membership in a sibling group

• Medical, physical, or emotional disabilities  

So after we have known about these kind of people we should know how can we help them to improve their skills , behavior and their life style . In many countries they started to help them by giving them special education in the special centers for example in the UAE there many special needs centers like Future Center and Sheikh Zayed center .In the future center they have many class for the special needs students for example English class , Arabic class , computer learning model and Vocational training classes . what’s more  The students follow a five-day week from 8:15 a.m. to 1:15 p.m

At the end we should all stand with those people to improve their skills and to make their life easier.  

Future Center

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 Future Center

Types of Challenges  

 

1. Describe the Future Center facility, staff and participants: What is it? Who are they? What do they do?

 

The Future Centre for Special Needs is a non-profit organization that has been in operation in Abu Dhabi since September 2000. It is recognized by the UAE. Ministry of Social Affairs. The Future Centre accommodates an annual average population of 170 students between 3 and 20 years of age from various nationalities, cultures and socio-economic backgrounds.. Members of its staff come from various nationalities and all have gained their respective qualifications from either their home countries or from abroad

2. Describe in detail the challenges the staff face, the participants face.

 

Cater to an annual average of 170 students with various disabilities, 50%

comes from UAE and the other half comes from about twenty nationalities

and with degrees of severity between mild to moderate.

 

3. What have they achieved so far ?

• The Future Centre For Special Needs is Winner Of 2009-2010 Khalifa Award for Education In The Special Needs Category.

• An Accredited Site For the Competent Learner Model (CLM) Awarded By The Tucci Learning Solutions, U.S.A.

• Its Rehabilitation Department is HAAD certified

• 2011 Award for Outstanding Director - Princess Haya Award For Special Education.

• 2012 Short listed For Outstanding Special Needs Center - Princess Haya For Special Education.

 

4. What are their future goals?

The Future Centre is working towards becoming a premier institution with standard of practice and service that is at par with the best national and international benchmarks.

 

5. How does this information relate to cultural diversity?

Special needs are important in our life so and they have many achievements remaining ,and we help them in various ways

Quiz – What is Cultural Diversity?

Quiz – What is Cultural Diversity?

Read the UNESCO report. True or False? If FALSE, write the TRUE answer.

1. At least 6000 different languages exist in the world.	TRUE
2. Over 200 million people live outside the country where they were born.	FALES/around 175 million
3. One aspect of Human Rights is respecting different cultures.	TRUE
4. Cultural Diversity means a lack of respect for freedom of thought.	FALES
5. Cultural Diversity can make a society stronger.	TRUE

Vocabulary practice. Define in your own words:

1. Heterogeneous-- Diversity

2. Plurality-- multitude

3. Migration--moving

4. Fundamental--basic

5. Collective strength--group of strergth

Now read the rest of the article, and answer these questions by researching on the internet.

1. The article mentions food as an example of Cultural Diversity. Can you think of something else which could add interest and richness in a culturally diverse country?

Language and food

2. Name three ways in which people of different cultures can help a country to function in the new global economy.

Trading and Creative solutions for problems

3. From the internet, in relation to Cultural Diversity, find a picture and a definition of “Melting pot” and “Garden salad”.

melting pot .. people from different cultural in one hand

4. Britain today is one of the most culturally diverse countries in the world. Look on the internet and find out which nationalities make up the “ethnic minority population of over 4 million”.

White (others= 3,096,169

Indians =1,053,411

5. Australia is another of the most culturally diverse countries in the world. The University of Melbourne has a policy on Cultural Diversity. Read the two paragraphs and summarize them in your own words.

Vocabulary practice. Give the opposite:

Varied	change	Increasingly	decreasingly	Respecting	disrespecting
Strength	meakmess	Improving	inclusive	Inclusive	exclusive
Majority	minority	Tolerance	forgiveness	Equality	equality

Vocabulary practice. Give a synonym:

Diverse	different	Creative	inventive	Uniqueness	distinction
Dignity	respect	Integrated	inserted	Asset	folk
Global	universal	Benefit	interest	Harmony	regularity

Introduction to Diversity - Portfolio exercise #1

Introduction to Diversity - Portfolio exercise #1

Introduction to Diversity - Portfolio exercise #1

With a partner, research on the internet to find the following information include your sources.

UAE Demographics:

Ethnic Groups	Percentage	Year	Source
Emirati	19%
other arab	23%
South Asian	50%
ther expatriates (includes Westerners and East Asians	8%

Religions	Percentage	Year	Source
Muslims	80%	2003	.wikipedia
Christians	10%	2003	.wikipedia
Hindu	5%	2003	.wikipedia
Buddhist	5%	2003	.wikipedia

1. Write a definition of cultural diversity in your own words

Cultural diversity is when you have people from different countries who of course have different beliefs, speak different languages, male and female living and working together peacefully..

2. Give examples of cultural diversity in Abu Dhabi (Places of worship, organizations, etc.)

Abu Dhabi festival films

Shekh Zayed Mousq

christian church in abu dhabi

What does being an Emirati mean to me ?

What does being an Emirati mean to me

The UAE means everything to me, like dates and water to a desert dweller. It is my home and I love this homeland. It is the place that has shaped me and my family to uphold our traditions, embrace the modern, multicultural society and befriend people from so many nations.

There many things that's I proud it in my country for example our traditional cloths and food so we I present my country culture to other people from different country I told them what is the reasons of waring Kandora or the skaf ..

Whats morek there are a a very nice places in the UAE which shows the back ground of our heritage for example Ras Alkayma city and AlFujayra .

At the end I can say there are many words that I cant tells about my country because these words lives in my hart and if I tells I will not finish forever