“Sharjah for learning difficulties” launches the first integrated guide to learning difficulties, attention palaces and excessive movement

The Sharjah Center for Learning Difficulties has announced the launch of the first evidence of its kind in the UAE concerned with learning difficulties, attention palaces and excessive movement, in a qualitative step that reflects the commitment of the Emirate of Sharjah to develop the comprehensive education system and enhance inclusive learning environments.
This edition, which was announced during the ceremony held at the Sharjah Academy of Education, in the presence of a group of decision makers and experts in the field of education, holds the title “Integrated Services for Learning Difficulties, Attention and Hyperactive Movement – Standards and Procedures”, which is the fruit of intense efforts made by the center over the years, and this guide is an integrated national reference targeting teachers, psychologists, parents, And practitioners in the fields of health and education, with the aim of unifying concepts and practices in dealing with the category of learning difficulties and the category of attention disorder and hyperactivity.

An effective educational and training tool
This project embodies one of the main pillars of the center’s strategy in promoting education quality and support services, by providing tools based on scientific foundations that help institutions to provide an inclusive and effective educational environment, which accommodates individual differences and takes into account the needs of each student.
The guide deals with a variety of axes that include all the stages that the student goes through, starting from observing the challenges, to the stage of diagnosis and evaluation and then designing individual intervention plans, and also includes an expanded explanation about appropriate educational models, behavior modification mechanisms, and methods of using auxiliary means in the semester and home.

Pioneer
Sheikha Jamila bint Muhammad Al Qasimi, head of the Sharjah City for Humanitarian Services, pointed out that the launch of the guide is a leading step that embodies the advanced vision of the Emirate of Sharjah in terms of supporting and empowering people with learning difficulties and ensuring a typical educational future for them by adopting innovative and sustainable educational solutions, noting that the evidence is a scientific and professional reference that contributes to unifying concepts and practices about difficulties Learning, hyperactivity disorder and pay attention, ensuring them equal opportunities for growth, development and active participation in society, as the guide represents a qualitative addition to the efforts of the Sharjah Center for learning difficulties towards the integration of families in educational and therapeutic plans for people with learning difficulties, and real support for teachers and educational institutions in enhancing their capabilities to build effective intervention plans based on the best global experiences.

Scientific and professional standards
For its part, the director of the Sharjah Center for Learning Difficulties, Dr. Hanadi Al -Suwaidi, stressed that preparing this guide and its launch was not just an information project, but a scientific and educational response to a realistic need faced by the educational field, there is a difference in understanding learning difficulties and mechanisms for dealing with them between institutions, and teachers and parents often face challenges in determining how to provide appropriate support, explaining that the evidence aims to bridge the gap between Academic knowledge and realistic practice, and helps to transfer best practices from advanced education environments to the local context, in a simplified and clear way, while preserving scientific and professional standards, and also called for the need to integrate the content of this guide within the training programs of educational institutions, and its adoption as a major reference in educational policies concerned with the category of students with learning difficulties.

Global experiences and practices
This evidence is the first of its kind in terms of combining the theoretical and practical aspect, as it includes studies of realistic cases and models of individual educational plans that can be applied in the local educational environment, which makes it an effective educational and training tool, and also provides instructions for teachers in how to deal with behaviors related to hyperplastic disorder and attention palaces, and provides gradual support paths that enable teachers to take enlightened decisions in the classroom The academic, the guide is based on extensive research reviews for the most prominent specialized experiences, in addition to its compatibility with the local context of the UAE.