Blind Students’ Attitudes towards the Effectiveness of Services of Disability Services Center at Islamic University of Gaza
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.24203/ajhss.v7i2.5550Keywords:
Effectiveness – Services – blind StudentsAbstract
The study aims at determining the effectiveness of the services of the Disability Services Center (DSC) for blind students at the Islamic University in Gaza (IUG). This evaluative study was applied to all blind students enrolled in different IUG faculties. The study applied the comprehensive social survey methodology to 89 students enrolled in the Center during April-May 2018. The study found that the services that achieved a high level of effectiveness from the perspective of blind students are academic services, followed by social, technical and psychological services. Students viewed the Center’s small location and shortage of specialists in the disability field among the main barriers to effective provision of services. The study recommends employing specialists in the field of assistive technologies at DSC and to expand the social and psychological services to help integrate blind students in the larger university community.
References
• Abdul Alim, F.M. (2014). The Effectiveness of Services and Programs of the Center for Care and Rehabilitation of People with Special Needs in Fayoum University. Journal of Social Work, (52), 57-104. Retrieved from. http://search.mandumah. com/Record/618054.
• Ahmed, Z.N. (1996). The role of Suez Canal University in serving the local community (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Ain Shams University, Cairo.
• Alsarie, I.G. (2014). Evaluation of programs and services for children with intellectual disabilities and autism disorders in the light of Jordanian quality standards. Al-Manara Journal for Research and Studies, 20 (2), 9-33. Retrieved from https://search.mandumah.com/Record/770634/Details.
• Badawi, A.Z. (1986). Dictionary of Social Sciences. Beirut: Lebanon Library for Publishing and Printing.
• Barker, R. L.(1987). The Social Work Dictionary (e), Sliver Spring Mary Land, N.A.S.W, P. 154.
• Baron, S., Phillips, R., & Stalker, K. (1996). Barriers to Training for Disabled Social Work Students. Disability & Society, 11(3), 361-378. doi:10.1080/09687599627660
• Elkin, Robert & Molitor.(1985). Management Indicators in Nonprofit Organization (N.Y.), U.S.A., P. 3.
• Faraj, S.B. (2006). Towards a proposed conception of a community-based approach to integration between governmental and non-governmental organizations for the care of mentally disabled children and their families. Journal of Studies of Social Work and Human Sciences, 2 (20). Retrieved from https://search.mandumah.com /Record/257416.
• Halwani, A.A. (2010). The effectiveness of programs of NGOs in the provision of integrated care services for the physically disabled. (Unpublished Master Thesis). Helwan University, Cairo.
• Hammam, S.R. (2001, March). The effectiveness of crisis theory in the service of the individual in the development of social responsibility for divorced women, Paper presented at the 14th Academic Conference, Faculty of Social Work, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt.
• Milic Babic, M., & Dowling, M. (2015). Social support, the presence of barriers and ideas for the future from students with disabilities in the higher education system in Croatia. Disability & Society, 30(4), 614-629. doi:10.1080/09687599.2015.1037949
• Mpofu, J., & Shumba, A. (2012). Perceived Challenges Faced by Visually-impaired Students in Open and Distance Learning Centres in Zimbabwe. Journal of Social Sciences, 31(2), 127-135. doi:10.1080/09718923.2012.11893021
• Mohamed, I.M. (2016). Evaluation of Services for the Care of Disabled Students in Universities (Unpublished Master Thesis). Helwan University, Cairo.
• Mousa, R.J. (2008). Effectiveness of special education centers in the rehabilitation of people with intellectual disabilities from the point of view of their employees in Khartoum. (Unpublished Master Thesis) Sudan University of Science and Technology, Khartoum.
• Naidoo, A. (2010). Students with disabilities' perceptions and experiences of the disability unit at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Howard College Campus. Available from http://worldcat.org /z-wcorg/ database.
• Obaid, M.S. (2012). Evaluation of the level of effectiveness of governmental and private mental disability centers in Amman Governorate, Journal of the Islamic University for Educational and Psychological Studies, 20 (2), 95-128. Retrieved from http://www.iugaza.edu.ps/ar/periodical/.
• Omri, R.A. (2012). Social Welfare Special Needs in Higher Education Institutions. Journal of Studies of Social Work and Human Sciencesa, 3 (33), 1001-1108. Retrieved from http://search.mandumah.com/Record/471535.
• Travis, S. N. (2014). Serving Learning Disabled Students in HAWAII's Community Colleges — Stakeholders’ Perspectives (Doctoral dissertation). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10125/100359.
• United Nations Organization (2006). Annual report on the rights of the disabled. Retrieved from http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/disability/docs/A.HRC.7.61 _ar.doc.
• Walker, D. A. (2011). An Exploration of How Disability Support Services are evaluated in Select Community Colleges. Digital Commons@NLU, Chicago, Illinois. Retrieved from http://digitalcommons.nl.edu/diss/43.
• Zhang, Nan (2016). The Status of School-based Mental Health Services for Students with Disabilities (Doctoral dissertation). Texas A & M University. Available electronically from http: //hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /158719
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
- Papers must be submitted on the understanding that they have not been published elsewhere (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture, review, or thesis) and are not currently under consideration by another journal published by any other publisher.
- It is also the authors responsibility to ensure that the articles emanating from a particular source are submitted with the necessary approval.
- The authors warrant that the paper is original and that he/she is the author of the paper, except for material that is clearly identified as to its original source, with permission notices from the copyright owners where required.
- The authors ensure that all the references carefully and they are accurate in the text as well as in the list of references (and vice versa).
- Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).
- The journal/publisher is not responsible for subsequent uses of the work. It is the author's responsibility to bring an infringement action if so desired by the author.
