A symposium for medical students on the challenges of dealing with a hearing impaired person
The Amman Center for Human Rights Studies (ACHRS) was part of an awareness workshop for medical students about the difficulties while dealing with hearing impaired people. The workshop took place in cooperation with the International Federation of Medical Students Associations.
The symposium began with a welcome speech by the director of the ACHRS, Dr. Nizam Assaf, in which he discussed the importance of the center and its many activities, especially in preparing youth cadres. Mrs. Rana Salim translated this speech into sign language. Then Mrs. Rana Saleem, coordinator of the people with disabilities unit at the ACHRS, presented the objectives and topics of the workshop. She explained the importance of the workshop, its implications and the quality of services provided to people with hearing disabilities.
Lecturer Rana Saleem introduced the participants to the basics of sign language, how to deal with people with hearing disabilities, and the challenges that people with hearing disabilities face in health and social life.
In the workshop the translator Saif Saleh and the sign language trainers Ibtihal Shajrawi and Muhammad Al-Naimat, both being hearing impaired, facilitated a practical training. They showed videoclips and the students had to diagnose the disease of the portrayed people. Then the roles were exchanged, whereby the medical students impersonated the characters of people with disabilities. Hearing and deaf people predicted the disease after students familiarized them with basic medical concepts.
The workshop was another event of the ACHRS’ series on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
