Impact

We have laid outlines to ensure stability, promotion and sustainability of the project: -Widening the range of investments. -Adopting income incurring businesses. - Maintaining some of the project revenues as a reserve budget for the partners. -Adopting sales promotion and marketing strategy. -Planning the use of any future donations and grants. -Expanding activities to other cities and getting them linked. -Improving the methods and training Our project aims to promote and enhance teaching and learning in Special Needs Education (disabled pupils) and explore the following issues relating to how ICTs enhances learning. It will also explore how ICTs enrich the learning opportunities and potential of students who have disabilities. - ICTs can help disabled pupils to provide access to learning. - ICTs can provide support for learning. - ICTs can help disabled pupils teachers and promote their skills. - ICTs enable disabled people to be productive individual and generate income. - ICTs help students to merge in their local society.

Track record of sharing

So far, we have extended our support and expertise to few organizations that share us the same interests. Some of which are: •United Nation Development Porgramme (UNDP) •International Development Research Center (IDRC) •UNESCO Association for Information Technology in Teacher Education (IITE) •NGO's, Syrian Organization for The Disabled. (AMAAL).

Lessons learnt

1-Digital opportunity for persons with disabilities. Examines how children with disabilities use broadband and other technologies. According to the introduction to this issue, the use of broadband, particularly when combined with other types of technology, can remove barriers that keep children with disabilities from fully participating in everyday activities alongside their peers and becoming independent members of their communities. Broadband, in these circumstances, means an internet connection that functions at speeds high enough to allow voice, data, and video transfer. 2-Distance learning and interaction with tutors Can benefit both students' abilities and disabilities. This can include job training, for example an entry-level certification in information technology that is available for the blind through distance education. 3-Communication among disabled students and families Can be facilitated through online opportunities; for example, a video relay service allowing a deaf student to send a sign language message that is given a voice by an online interpreter. 4-Computer game sites, including virtual reality sites like Second Life, can give youth with disabilities opportunities to socialize, conduct business, and explore. A child who needs reading support may use a screen reader - a software programme that reads text and describes other visual contents of a computer screen aloud in a synthetic voice output or by controlling a Braille display - to search the internet for a newspaper article and to read its contents. 5-Computer hardware and software communication functions combined with broadband can enable users to access a variety of ways to communicate and exchange information through text chat, sound, video, closed captioning, and speech recognition. In an educational setting, for example, a student who has limited speech and mobility can use a special wireless keyboard device with text-to-speech functionality to offer opinions to the class, to access web-based resources.