دور الإعلام الحديث في نشر الوعي في قضايا ذوي الإعاقة

Abstract EN

Media and modern media play an important and essential role in educating societies, but in designing policies and influencing trends at the individual and community levels.

Persons with disabilities are among the groups that need to be focusing by the media, in terms of humanity, justice, and societal advancement in principles and values, and in the service of their multiple issues that they suffer from, and society and authority holders overlook them, and perhaps the most important issues: prevention and reduction of disability, diagnosis and early intervention, Legislation pertaining to the rights and duties of persons with disabilities, vocational rehabilitation for persons with disabilities, as well as integration into society and society's acceptance of dealing with people with disabilities, and their integration appropriate for each of their groups.

Perhaps one of the most important modern media with an effective impact and the most widespread among groups of society is social media such as: (Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook).

Many studies have proven the effectiveness of social media, the speed of its spread and its impact on its users, and the researcher has reached several recommendations such as:  Intensifying media efforts to educate society and the importance of its role in caring for people with disabilities.

 Urging institutions and media centers to direct some work towards people with disabilities to confirm their right to practice their normal lives.

 Highlighting the capabilities of people with disabilities to give and that they are effective people and not dependents on their societies through social media.

 Designing electronic training and counseling programs that contribute to prevention and reduction of disability, and to rehabilitate, integrate and educate people with disabilities through modern media.

 Using social media to highlight the service problems faced by people with disabilities by state ministries.

 Creating a new department under the name of the Electronic Media Department affiliated with the public authority for Disability, and supporting it with technically and media-qualified cadres.

 creating training courses for public relations and media employees in ministries and official state institutions on how to deal with and serve people with disabilities, and spread awareness in the community of their issues.

 Establish a mass communication committee at the level of Arab countries to present and publish targeted media programs that serve the issues of people with disabilities.