About El Bonyan El Marsous Center for Welfare of Children with Disabilities
About the center
El Bonyan El Marsous care center for children with special abilities is one of the activities of the enterprise El Bonyan El Marsous which has to radiate luster in these children serve the actual with the community to communicate and adapt to commensurate with their abilities and preferences, and the Center to provide services to these children through day care sessions, skills development and therapy sessions defects pronunciation Physiotherapy, evening hosting and behavior modification “I pray to God to help us and take care of our children.”
El Bonyan El Marsous Center for Welfare of Children with Disabilities is one of El Bonyan El Marsous Charitable Foundation which was established according to a specific vision and a clear-cut strategy striving to activate the spirit of belonging and communication among members of the society and address some of the social problems. El Bonyan El Marsous Charitable Foundation adopts science as a methodology, accumulated experiences as a means, hands of the rich as support, paying back to the home country as an objective, and the Law of the Creator as a destination and a course. El Bonyan El Marsous strives through its health, rehabilitation, psychological, social, and sports programs to support and care for children with disabilities through the Center due to the pressing need to expand services, our desire to deliver services for those who need them, alleviate the suffering of children and their families, and the desire to develop our services to catch up with the global trend in generalizing care, education, training and rehabilitation. We started diversifying services to cover the biggest group of children with disabilities. El Bonyan El Marsous Center receives all cases of disability and rehabilitates all children with disabilities through specialized programs that fit with each case which are implemented by practitioners specialized in all disabilities. The Center provides a daycare facility that presents speech therapy, and skill development sessions. It also provides individual evening sessions. The center provides physiotherapy sessions, behavior modification sessions, lisp correction sessions, stutter therapy sessions, learning difficulties sessions, IQ tests, and autism tests.
1- Day care
The center includes a number of chapters day divided by mental age for children and includes each chapter a maximum of 8 cases is supervised by them trained specialists and provides the integrated programs that include various aspects of growth (cognitive – motor – linguistic – social – academic and self-direction) and include modifying the behavior of the child and also programs Athletic and technical carried out by experienced professionals.
2- Speech sessions and treatment of speech defects
In it, we offer programs for developing language abilities through sessions that are supervised by a speech specialist from a graduate of the audio department at the Faculty of Arts and who works within the framework of a vehement and diacritical system.
3- Skill development sessions
We offer the mental capacity development programs through sessions supervised by the implementation of special education specialist and works on high mental capacity special cases the development of difficult and slow learning and underachievement is also working to help eligible children of school integration according to the program fits their abilities and mental abilities.
4- Early intervention sessions
In it, we offer programs for the initial development of children’s abilities from the age of months to the age of 6 years, depending on the development of the senses and integration of sensory perception, which is carried out by an early intervention specialist.
5- Evening hosting
In it, we provide evening services for children with the aim of exploiting the child’s time in playing and entertaining with recreational tools and means that serve and help develop their abilities and organize with the community. Surrounding them and developing their different talents.
6- Tests, measurements and evaluation
We provide psychological assessment services, intelligence tests and various psychological measurements, in addition to conducting capacity assessments and developing developmental programmes.
7- Family support and counseling
In it, we provide support, guidance, counseling and training to the child’s family, especially the mother, so that she can help her child complete his natural and scientific growth.
8- Physiotherapy and occupational therapy sessions
We offer physiotherapy sessions to develop the movement to exploit the children’s potentials and rehabilitate them to coexist with society in an acceptable manner that suits their abilities. These sessions are conducted by a group of therapists.
Al-Bunyan Al-Marsoos Center receives all cases and rehabilitates them through specialized programs that are suitable for each case, carried out by specialists for each of the cases and cases that are focused on:
Developmental conditions such as (autism):
In it, we offer programs for the initial development of children’s abilities from the age of months to the age of 6 years, depending on the development of the senses and integration of sensory perception, which is carried out by an early intervention specialist.
Mental conditions and their syndromes, such as (Down):
The center receives cases of mental retardation with all its syndromes, such as Down and Patio, and deals with cases through sessions that develop their skills, train them for self-reliance, develop their intelligence and develop their language.
Cerebral palsy (C.P):
The center provides a special place for the physiotherapy of cerebral palsy, and it has all the equipment. It is equipped at the highest level with the presence of physicians who specialize in physical therapy.
Learning difficulties and slow learning:
The center is able, through individual evening sessions, to train retarded children through rehabilitation programs that simplify the curriculum for them using simple scientific methods.
Behavior modification
How to recognize that your son has problems that need modification? One of the following problems should exist
Behavioral problems
Sleep disorder, eating disorder, speech disorder, gender disorder, attention deficit, hyperactivity
Emotional problems
Anxiety, depression. The causes of such behavior are
- Subjective reasons.
- Lack of knowledge
- Good knowledge, however it is accompanied with:
- Sense of inferiority
- Desire for attention
- Rebellion and rejection
- Express problems by oneself
External reasons
Upbringing shortcomings
- Overprotection
- Over pampering
- Lack of guidance
Mistreatments
- Mockery
- Pity
- Provocation
Behavior modification is used to
- Teach a new behavior
- Reinforce the occurrence of an established behavior but occurs less frequently or rarely
- Minimize or end an undesired behavior
In order to increase response in behavior modification some items favorable to the child, and reinforcements must be used. Reinforcements are divided into:
Primary reinforcements: related to the biological needs; food, drinks
Secondary reinforcements: stars, pictures, token money
Social reinforcements: praise, smiling, applauding, gestural prompts
Reinforcement Activities: practicing a favorite activity such as biking, watching cartoons.
Behavior modification techniques
Positive reinforcement
Presenting a reward right after the behavior occurs increased the frequency, length, or strength of such behavior. The reinforcer should be immediate, consistent, favorable to the person and appropriate to the situation.
Restitution
To restitute the environment to the first condition before the occurrence of misbehavior. It might be accompanied with an apology.
Exclusion from positive reinforcement
Setting with the group but not taking part in the activity
Behavioral Contracting
To state the inappropriate behavior, the required appropriate behavior, and the reinforcer presented for such behavior. Such technique is valid for adults and it may be oral or written in form of contract.
Token Economy
To give a physical reinforcer such as starts and when a certain number (to be agreed upon) of such item is collected it is replaced with a reward.
Extinction
To remove the reinforcer of misbehavior, for example: a child cries to make his mother go to him and hold him. The mother does not come unless he is stops crying. Extinction is not used for harmful behavior.
Separation by isolation
After the occurrence of misbehavior the child is separated in another well-lit and well-ventilated unlocked room that does not contain any entertaining items.
Overcorrection
Too many corrections, for example: a child pours water on a part of the floor; overcorrection is to make him wipe the entire floor.
Autism
The Center receives all children with all autism syndromes for rehabilitation in terms of language, and social aspects as well as communication with others and the outer society. The Center also develops their skills through customized programs carried out by practitioners specialized in autism.
Mental retardation and its syndromes (e.g., Down)
The Center receives cases of Mental retardation syndromes and it handles the cases through sessions that develop their skills and train them on self-dependence, in addition to developing their IQ and language.
Cerebral palsy (C.P.)
The Center provides a space for physiotherapy for cerebral palsy patients, which highly equipped with all top notch equipment. Further, the Center provides physiotherapists and rehabilitates C.P. patients in terms of language and skills.
Learning Difficulties
The Center can train academically retarded children in the individual evening session through rehabilitation programs that facilitate curricula using simplified scientific techniques.
A Disabled Person
An individual who, due to genetic or environmental factors, has impaired ability to learn, gain experiences or skills needed to adapt to the day-to-day life demands or perform work as a normal person with the same age, and cultural, economic, or social background.
The problems of impairment, due to its magnitude, branching, multiplicity of contributing factors, and programs of disability prevention, rehabilitation, education, and legislation and also due to the categorization of those suffering from disability into physical or mental disabilities, fall under the jurisdiction of many government authorities, including ministries, research centers, universities, and nongovernmental organizations, and international and regional organizations and others which requires clear policies, strategies, and short-term and long-term plans to address disability whether in the area of prevention, treatment, or social rehabilitation of disabled individuals, or education rehabilitation such as preparation of personnel of different affiliations to deal with the disabled individuals and their families.
Early intervention as a means to control disability
Early intervention is one of modern trends to care for persons with special needs through multiple programs.
Child-based programs
They address the genetic state of the child and they include scan and initial sorting services, needs assessment, designing of individual intervention plan, and proper care.
Family- based programs
As the family needs:
- Support and assistance or a mediator to provide medical and educational care
- Accept and adapt with disability
- Improving family harmony and interaction and patterns of communication and early interaction between parents and the child.
- The family needs sponsorship from different support organizations as well as economic and social support.
Community-based programs
They prepare service institutions in the area of mother and child health, early care centers, and care resources in the local community by preparing practitioners in the areas of intervention, guidance, and media programming in the field of disability and supporting official associations with training programs dedicated to the parents.
Disability Rehabilitation Act
Law number 39/1975 as amended by law 49/82 is the first rehabilitation law to be enacted in Egypt. It includes 21 articles. Below are some of the most important clauses of such act:
- A specific and comprehensive definition of the terms “disabled” and “rehabilitation of disabled” is identified.
- Asserting that the state is committed to provide rehabilitation services for the disabled and his family.
- Establishment of rehabilitation organizations and institutes must be licensed from the Ministry of Social Affairs
- Rising of mandatory employment rate in the private sector to 5% of total number of workers if they exceed 50 workers.
- A new clause was added dedicating 5% of total vacant third level positions in the administrative body of the state, general authorities, and institutions for persons with disabilities who have rehabilitation certificates. Certain jobs must be dedicated to person with disabilities and normal persons may only be recruited in such jobs subject to the consent of Ministry of Social Affairs.
- Setting penalties on employers who fail to enforce the law.
- Dedicating the penalty proceeds to refund the rehabilitation service.
Child Law No. 12/1996, as amended by Law No. 126/2008:
Article 75
Article 76
Article 76-bis
A disabled child shall have the right to education, training, and vocational rehabilitation at the same schools, institutes, and training centers available to non- disabled children, except in exceptional cases resulting from the nature and degree of disability. In such exceptional cases, the State shall be ensure education and training in classes, schools, institutions, or special training centers, as the case may be. Such institutions shall meet the following requirements:
- To be linked to the regular education system as well as to the training and vocational rehabilitation system for non-disabled children.
- To meet the needs of the disabled child and be located in near his home.
- To provide all disabled children with comprehensive education or training program, whatever their age or degree of disability.
Article 77
Article 78
Article 79
Article 80
Article 81
Article 82
Article 83
Article 84
Article 85
Article 86