No specialized cadres on Campus: Official

      Some People on campus are not interested in helping students with disabilities, says Aread H. Nassar, Students with Disabilities Centre, in an interview with Resalah newspaper. 

      Resalah: What are the center's objectives?

      Nassar: Containing the students with disabilities; providing proper solutions to them; developing on-campus services for students acquiring disabilities; and presenting proposals to some departments to offer services for them.

      Resalah: What is center story?

      Nassar: The beginning of the center dated back to 1984. It was a club to take care of the visual-impaired students. It was established at the request of the visual-impaired students. I am honored to be one of them.

      Resalah: What is the work mechanism?

      Nassar: It recognizes the psychological and social problems of the students with disabilities trying to solve them. It acts as a liaison between the students and the KSU management. It offers advice to the departments on campus.

      Resalah: The center does not go onstage this year. Why?

      Nassar: The reason is that most of the students have already graduated and the other students are busy off campus. In addition, there is no specialized director in disability field.

      Resalah: What are the most prominent accomplishments?

      Nassar: Establishing a distinctive computer lab, establishing Braille press houses, and re-printing Resalah newspaper on Braille. Students performed onstage throughout the past years. Personally speaking, I was the first to design the Hegira and Georgian Calendar on Braille way in 1986 G. It was by then the first at the Arab level.

      Resalah: What are the problems you face?

      Nassar: Lack of specialized cadres working full-time in-house. We can perform many activities but feel hesitated to do some works due to having no cadres and some people on campus are not interested in making things easy for the center. I wish there would be an order to submit services on campus and in higher education institutions.

      Resalah: What is your hope?

      Nasser: I hope that every student of disability should carry a laptop designed in a certain way to help them benefit from the information technology.

      Resalah: What a message you would like to send?

      Nasser: An acknowledgement letter on behalf of students with disabilities to H.E. Professor Dr. Abdullah Al-Othman, King Saud University rector, for his staunch support and various helps.