Sharjah to hold virtual meet with Jordan varsity

SHARJAH: The Sharjah City for Humanitarian Services (SCHS), in cooperation with the Hashemite University of Jordan, will organize the Virtual International Scientific Conference on March 8 and 9, 2022 under the title “Quality of Life for Persons with Severe and Multiple Disabilities”.

Sheikha Jamila Bint Muhammad Al Qasimi, Director General of SCHS, has confirmed that Sharjah City for Humanitarian Services pays great atention to the quality of life of persons with disabilities in general and persons with severe and multiple disabilities in particular. SCHS recruits all the means to achieve this. It hopes that this conference will be a good step on the right path.

She said, “The conference aims to raise awareness about the latest developments and medical, scientific, practical, educational and rehabilitative practices for people with severe and multiple disabilities. It will shed light on the most important issues and rights related to them. In addition, the conference will provide new knowledge; allow the exchanging of distinctive experiences, and proposing solutions to some issues and challenges. This contributes to improving the quality of life for people with severe and multiple disabilities and their families”.

“SCHS depend on its vision, mission and strategic objectives in organizing this conference. These objectives include following standards of excellence, quality and efficiency, adopting the foundations of equality and diversity, producing knowledge at the local and international levels. It also depend on its orientation to employ best practices for the benefit of people with disabilities and the society as a whole”.

The Director General of SCHS has stressed that people take the basic rights of inclusion, education, full participation, decision-making and self-determination for granted for persons with disabilities. However, achieving them for persons with severe and multiple disabilities faces many challenges around the world with different degrees. The challenges of diagnostics, interventions and the use of assistive technologies in the digital age continue. Professionals describe this as old problems with new challenges.