The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com
Students with disabilities bring new strengths into the classroom. Unfortunately, the focus ‘mostly’ is on what children with disabilities lack instead of what they do well.
Bahrain, however, is walking a different path in this scenario and ensuring the rights of persons with disabilities to education.
According to the Ministry of Education, Bahrain has over 106 students enrolled in autism classes in the public schools of the Kingdom, of which 56 are in regular classes.
There are also over 21 schools - 18 schools for boys and three schools for girls- to support students with Autism spectrum disorder.