Support services for people with disabilities

Support services for people with disabilities

Serving and integrating students with special needs is one of the priorities that KAU seeks to achieve. KAU has worked to create effective mechanisms to take into account the rights of people with special needs and to provide support and appropriate service to their needs according to the available capabilities. The mechanisms include:

• Forming a Higher Committee headed by His Excellency the President of the University and a Permanent Committee for Students with Disabilities headed by the Dean of Student Affairs to take care of the rights of students with special needs, with a representation of students with special needs from various disabilities in these committees.
• Providing counselling programs to help students with special needs.
• Forming a Technical Committee to undertake the tasks of classifying students with special needs who are eligible for aid and directing the remuneration administration to complete and disburse due cases. Around 88% of students with special needs who applied received subsidies.
• Providing a specific body at the university to take care of people with special needs from their registration until their graduation, the Center for People with Special Needs at the Vice Deanship of Student Affairs for People with Special Needs.
• Providing appropriate facilities and equipment for people with special needs.
• A Higher Committee chaired by the Vice-Dean for Projects, an Executive Committee chaired by the Deanship of Student Affairs Vice-Dean for Students with Special Needs and a Permanent Committee are formed to speed up and follow up the implementation of accessibility projects within the university facilities with providing channels for submitting proposals or complaints about any obstacles facing students with special needs using both paper and online forms.
• Defining criteria and mechanisms for accepting students with special needs in undergraduate and postgraduate programs and facilitating their acceptance in the university and the services provided to them through the Screening and placement committee for students with special needs.
• Roadmap for the development of programs for people with special needs at KAU. It aims at inducing a path for deaf school students to be able to enroll in the university and developing essential skills to deal with those students.
• Take the necessary measures to organize the participation of students with special needs in sports activities and to represent the university in the Saudi Universities Sports Federation Championships, which are held annually at the level of Saudi universities under direct supervision from the Ministry of Education.

 

A report on the university’s contributions to supporting people with disabilities during the year 2024, which includes the services and entities concerned with this, in addition to the most important achievements.

One of the most prominent features of these efforts is that the university won for the third time the International Zero Project Award in the field of serving and caring for people with disabilities.

The fact that King Abdulaziz University received the International Zero Project Award for the third time is an indication of the university’s preservation of its gains, especially with regard to the segment of university students with disabilities, and the continued efforts to develop the services provided to them, paying attention to their international celebrations and events, and preparing awareness media to clarify Their rights and informing the university community of their issues and how to deal with them.The projects for which the university won the award were as follows:

1. Show me the way
2. Higher education for all
3. Qualification year for the hearing impaired and deaf