In this connection, the following observations were recorded:
Awareness-raising of the importance of supporting and assisting persons
with disabilities in various positions, whether in the family or at school,
university or work, or even in the street, is considered an important issue to
facilitate the empowerment of this category in society.
Tenth: Sport, Cultural Life and Recreation
Jordan attaches special attention to the participation of persons with
disabilities in sports activities. Thus the Jordanian Union for Disabled Sport
was established in 1981to enable such persons to exercise different sports
activities and participate in sporting events inside and outside the Kingdom.
Persons with disabilities were honored at the highest levels in this area and
there is a set of clubs that were established for the same purpose, but they
are not equally distributed in all governorates of the Kingdom.
In the field of culture, persons with visual disabilities suffer from the lack of
cultural books printed in the Braille method, and the lack of computers
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