Their Majesties King Abdullah and Queen Rania on Tuesday afternoon, spent a few hours  with students at the Academy for the Blind in Tabarbour. The Academy is affiliated with the Ministry of Education.

Their Majesties engages with the students spoke about projects they designed and executed at the academy’s science, technology, engineering, and mathematics lab for students with visual disabilities, the first of its kind in the region. Their projects include electric circuit design and implementation, robot design, and using chess to teach mathematics to students with visual disabilities.

After the academy’s director, Abdelmunem Dweiri gave a briefing to Their Majesty stating that the latest education technology was used to provide a suitable learning environment for students with visual disabilities across the Kingdom, from first to 12th grade.

A total of 295 students—20 of whom live on the premises—are currently enrolled in the academy, which includes 34 classrooms and employs 153 staff members, 101 of them are teachers, including 55 teachers with visual disabilities, according to Dweiri.

Established in 2011 upon royal directives, the academy is the only such institution dedicated to serving students with visual disabilities. It rehabilitates students and offers psychological and healthcare services, and also prints education ministry curricula in Braille for blind students in Jordan.

During the visit, Their Majesties also stopped at an exhibition of paintings by students, supervised by artist Suhail Baqaeen, who initiated the “Colour Reader” programme to teach students to use their sense of smell to identify colours and create artwork.


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