HE Mr. Abdullah bin Nasser Al-Khalifa, Secretary-General of Supreme Council for Family Affairs lauded the efforts exerted by the Youth General Authority and the Cultural and Social Center for the Deaf for conducting a rehabilitative training course for parents and hearing aids trainers with the aim of caring for special needs persons who suffer from the problem of hard of hearing. The problem has been solved by the use of a hearing aid. HE mentioned that by instructions of Her Highness, Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al-Missned, SCFA President, special needs persons have received the greatest care through the establishment of specialized institutions. Al-Shaffallah Center is considered among the first centers established by SCFA to offer different rehabilitative and educational services to our children, special needs persons. Besides, SCFA undertakes preparing programs, establishing strategies and drafting recommendations which aim at including this group in the community and give it its rights fully being an active element in the society.

HE added by stating that we are living in an era when technology in all of its kinds has developed hugely and it has become easy for everybody to get access to information by various means. A number of special needs persons have proved to do very well in many different educational areas and scored the highest academic results, thanks to the support of families and social and educational institutions to them, and by keeping abreast of scientific development which beat all types of disabilities. Our children and brothers who use hearing aids are considered the best of the disabled groups in their abilities to receive training and rehabilitation and overcome their simple hearing impairment and be successful in their education once they were provided with the proper environment consisting of family, school and the community. HE pointed out that the outcomes of the course are very important, especially the recommendation related to preparing qualified national cadres to diagnose and rehabilitate the hard of hearing through education, programs and workshops, and follow-up of those included in schools to help them overcome educational and rehabilitative difficulties. HE confirmed the role of the family in helping its members to cope with their disabilities and overcome them and then treat them in a special way that opens before them the different ways of education and rehabilitation and he wished that such a rehabilitative course to be repeated to contribute largely to raise awareness of the community and families in the sphere of special needs persons care.

This occurred during the concluding ceremony of the First Rehabilitative Training Course for Parents and Hard of Hearing Professionals organized by the Social and Cultural Qatari Center for the Deaf and the Youth General Authority for ten days with the aim of training these children to develop their language and hearing skills to enter the world of hearing normally. This took place in a ceremony held in the Intercontinental Hotel, and was attended by a large number of professionals and people concerned with special needs and a number of the Board of Directors members of the Center, as well as a number of parents of children who use hearing aids