allocated for their use at an appropriate financial cost, leading to their
inability to buy. In the same context, persons with physical disabilities suffer
from the lack of environmental facilities in public places of entertainment
and culture available to the public. Furthermore, persons with hearing
impairments suffer from the lack of sign language in television cultural and
entertainment programs, where it is limited to the six p.m. local news
bulletin.
In this connection, the following observations were recorded:
1. Lack of places for spending leisure time, such as public gardens,
theaters and cinemas, especially outside the capital Amman, in
addition to the exclusion of persons with disabilities from
entertainment on the shores of the sea and walking nearby.
2. This right may be partially satisfied, which requires the government
and private entities to provide or assist in providing various means to
enable persons with disabilities to exercise their rights stipulated by
the international convention, including their right to cultural life and
recreation.
3. The opportunity to develop the talents of this category of society
should be availed, not only for their own benefit, but also for the
enrichment of society.
Eleventh: The Rights of the Child with a Disability
According to the text of Article (23), The Convention on the Rights of the
Child included the need for States Parties to pay great attention to children
with physical and mental disabilities and to seek their integration, so as to
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