through the development of (550) resource rooms until 2009, distributed
among the various directorates of education in the Kingdom.
As for the education of blind students, there are two specialized schools for
the education of blind students in the capital Amman, where they include
primary and secondary education stages.
With regard to the students with hearing disabilities, there are (10) schools
serving more than (800) students, as of 2009. These schools provide
specialized academic education for this category of society.
Good offices are exerted to integrate students with physical mobility in
public schools, as the Ministry of Education is gradually preparing schools
in environmental terms. In the same context, the Government signed an
agreement with the Al-Hussein Society for Physical Disability to transfer
students who finish their primary education stage offered by the Society to
the schools of the Ministry in order to realize the integration in education,
which contributes to the environmental harmonization of schools to which
children are transferred, and, at the same time, train teachers in those schools
on how to deal positively with children with disabilities.
As for students with medium and severe mental disabilities, which are under
the aegis of the Ministry of Social Development, the number of special
schools reached (14) schools distributed in various regions of the Kingdom.
Believing in the importance of higher education for students with
disabilities, it has been agreed between the HCAPD and the Ministry of
Higher Education to admit the students with disabilities, who have passed
the General Secondary Education Certificate Exam (Tawjihi) within
acceptable scores, to universities, in addition to granting them a reasonable
exemption amounting to (90%) of the financial costs required for education,
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