Jabalia Rehabilitation Society

1 Deaf Education Program;
Deaf Education Program started providing educational services for deaf children living in Northern Governorate in 1992. The program offers educational services for 96 deaf pupils of 1th – 9th grades yearly. It includes kindergarten, elementary and preparatory grades, and one grade of high school stage of education. JRS school for deaf children actively takes part in the most important community events. The pupils are daily provided with transportation services. Also, Deaf Education Program pupils are regularly provided with such services as audiological follow-up, speech therapy for pupils with partial hearing loss.
2 Community-Based Rehabilitation Program;
The program focuses on integrating the disabled children living in Northern Governorate in the community. Rehabilitation specialists visit the disabled children at their homes to provide the child's caregivers and family members with relevant knowledge on how to take care of their disabled child. The program workers are responsible for networking and coordination with community establishments including rehabilitative ones. One of important activities being regularly implemented is Signal language courses for deaf children families' members. The program being described successfully implements distribution of technical aids and medical supply for disabled individuals (with different causes of disability) who live in the targeted area.
3 Audiology clinic;
The main goal of the clinic is to diagnose, counsel, follow up clients with hearing problems referred from various medical centers and fit, repair (if needed) hearing aids. Also, the clinic provides all above-mentioned rehabilitative services for JRS deaf school pupils.
4 Speech and language therapy;
The clinic provides speech and therapy services such as speech therapy itself, follow up to individuals suffering from speech and language disorders. Adults as well as children benefit from the clinic activities, but the focus is made on children in need of described above services. Speech and therapy specialist provides speech therapy services for deaf school children with partial hearing loss.
5 Vocational Training;
Deaf school graduates are provided with bakery training. During the year 2014, 13 deaf females are got trained in JRS bakery.
6 Emergency and Relief Activities;
JRS is the leader of local emergency committee represented by local NGOs, which reports immediately on accidents needed emergency interventions/ support (such as flooding houses by sewage waters, damage after military incursions, siege and shortage/ lack of access to technical aids and medical supply) taking place in Jabalia Camp and close to it areas and implements distribution of emergency help in the case of emergency situation. Among the emergency interventions, the following should be mentioned: field survey to gather the data after accident/ disaster, etc.; urgent distribution of emergency items; emergency community-based rehabilitation, etc.