The Fourth Family Meeting

United Arab Emirates19 April 2004Draft

The Handicapped People... Reality and the Future The care of people with special needs has acquired major importance in today’s world. There are various levels of physical disabilities. Such disabilities could be congenital (caused at birth due to various factors) or results of accidents or injuries. These disabilities affect people of all ages. People with special needs, whether they have physical disabilities or health impairment, can be defined as those individuals whose disability deprives them of performing normally physical androutine functions. This makes them unable to learn, which would necessitate that they must be provided with special medical and psychological services. Forum’s Objectives 1- Increasing international attention on the care and rehabilitation of the disabled, especially those people with special needs who have not yet received adequate care and attention from researchers and specialists. 2- Raising the educational, social and health awareness of community members and shedding light on concepts, causes, means of prevention and treatment of disability. 3- Identifying characteristics of people with special needs in order to provide them the right educational education for their rehabilitation and wellbeing. Size: 40 x 27 mm in sheets of 50 stamps.