UST holds disability awareness training
AS part of the 55th anniversary celebration of research in the University of Santo Tomas, the research center and fine arts college organized a training activity focused on disability awareness and an art exhibit, respectively.
The Education Studies Research Interest Group of the Research Center for Social Sciences and Education ( RCSSED) in cooperation with the Learning Resource Unit for Inclusive Education of UST conducted the Disability Awareness and Sensitivity Training for high school teachers and other education stakeholders at the Thomas Aquinas Research Complex.
Part of the multi- year project, the activity was aimed at supporting public schools in implementing inclusive education and addressing key issues in the education of children with disabilities. The training was designed to help inculcate the value of helping and accommodating students with learning disabilities. One of the highlights was an exercise that allowed the participants to experience the feeling of having a learning disability.
On hand were experts from the university, namely, Mr. Hubert Ramos, Asst. Prof. Karen Ongtangco, Ms. Eleanor Bahrami- Hessari, Prof. Marie Antonette Vargas, Ph. D., Asst. Prof. Bernard Saldivar and Asst. Prof. Maripia Rabacal, who shared not only their technical knowledge but their experiences as well.
Meanwhile, the Environmental Science students of the UST College of Fine Arts mounted its Inang Kalikasan 2018 Art Exhibit to raise the environmental awareness of the Thomasian community through their artwork.
The exhibit was sponsored by the Sustainability Research Interest Group ( RIG) of the RCSSED. It was inaugurated by Prof. Maribel G. Nonato, PhD, Vice- Rector for Research and Innovation ( OVRRI) and Prof. Belinda V. De Castro, PhD, RCSSED Director.
The RCSSED- RIG include, Mr. Ronald M. Castillo ( AB); Asst. Prof. Rhodoralyn C. Lintag ( AB); Assoc. Prof. Maria Rosario Virginia C. Garcia, Ph. D. ( Science); RIG Lead Prof. Arlen A. Ancheta, Ph. D. ( AB); Education RIG member Assoc. Prof. Moises Norman Z. Garcia, Ph. D. ( Science) and Arch. Rizalito M. Mercado ( Architecture).