Students with special needs take a virtual step

TDT | Manama

The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com

Special needs kids in Bahrain are embarking on a special mission. They are now interacting and learning, just like children all over the world, with their teachers and friends virtually.

Helping them make these crucial steps is Bahrain’s Education Ministry.

Just like regular students, special needs kids in the Kingdom’s government schools are also attending virtual classes.

Making the baby steps are girls at Arad Preparatory School. This special mission is going forward with the help of parents like Fatima Ali Al Nuaimi, who is the mother of a special needs kid.
In a typical year, her kid receives all the support she needed at her school, but that time has changed. Now unfolding before students is an at-home technology, where teachers and classmates come to the home.

In this endeavour, Al Nuaimi is also playing her role in helping her special needs kid get on with the virtual classes.

Also assisting kids with intellectual disability and Down syndrome are Professor Sahar Khattab and Professor Siddiqa Saeed, and special education teachers.

For this, educators created individual educational plans to meet a student’s unique needs and involving parents.

PowerPoint programmes, education videos, interactive visual session through TIMES and WhatsApp are tools for this special effort.

Teachers are also using Wordwall programme to create and design educational games linked to the lessons.
Talking about the classes, Fatima Ali Al Nuaimi thanked the ministry for its tremendous role in ensuring the continuation of education for all.

She praised the role of the school and teachers in the success of the distance learning process for students with special needs.