Womens Studies: Woman of the Year Refia Ari -a pioneer of Special Need

Womens Studies REFIA ARI - Woman of the course of studyPioneer of Special Needs learning for disable children in KKTC CyprusRefia Ari received the Woman of the Year award in 2003 of the Womens Studies & Education Centre, Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU), KKTC/TRNC-Cyprus. She enabled special needs statement for disabled children, childrens disability support for their parents and disabilities careres.Mrs. Refia (Ari) has created for .. children a world that becomes more beautiful every(prenominal) day(Sleyman Ergl, News Director, Bayrak Radio-Tele heap -rtd Yaamn inden BRTK, Cyprus-KKTC)This womans nation besides has its share of disabled children. But Cyprus-KKTC had no facilities for children with disabilities. Neither for their care, nor for their well creation and education. Nor for the welfare and educational support needs of their parents. Special needs education did not exist for children with disabilities. Parents of disabled children had no education on how to c ope. Children with cordial or physical handicaps simply existed and suffered. Refia Ari changed that for the disabled of Cyprus-KKTC. Her Successful Woman of the Year Award by the Eastern Mediterranean Universitys Womens Studies and Education Centre was for her pioneering deeds which made that change possible. Especially for children with disabilities and the parents of handicapped children. While Cyprus is in, both, the British domain and the European Union, and, indeed, also in the European Convention on charitable Rights, concerns were, as of the United Nations, mostly with its inter-communal conflict, and neither local nor foreign back up existed for the disabled men and women and children of Cyprus-KKTC -not even an official disability re... ...ial education provide catering also for the special needs of disabled children up the come along of 18, and she was included in its committee for the re-organisation of the educational system which should also lighten the integr ation into society of disabled children by their education in universal schools.Refia Ari, with her exceptional leadership qualities and extraordinary organising skills having worked wonders for the handicapped children of Cyprus-KKTC, is reported in the media to be pursuing her vision to get official help, support and education elongate also to disabled adults.Her voluntary works with various disability organisations and vision for the disabled, as she stated to the BRTK, is based on Refia Aris philosophy that -translated We have advantages in life and disadvantages, some of us backsidet run -but if ones hand is held one can at least walk.