In side ZHO
1.organization
In my volunteer I choose ZHO (Zayed High Organization).The main goal for
this organization is taking care of the special and develop their skills. In
the organization there are more than 12 section each section holding certain
special needs. The administration of ZHO decided to put me in the Autism
Center, so they gave as a lecture about what is the Autism, and how could we
work with the Autism children. In the Autism the student spread in 6 levels the
highest is Alzohor, and the lowest is the sky. Every student have a plane
called Almasar , where it has three kind of goals for three kind of planes. The
first plane is for the lowest skill patient where the last step is joining the
care home in the organization. The second plane is for the medium student where
the goal is make them make sample industrial work like sewing, and the last
plane for the highest student by making them joining the regular schools. The Autism
center is similar to any school they starting at 8:30 am and finishing at 1:00
pm, each lesson is 45 minute, and there are sixteen classroom, two speech rooms,
one art room, and one behavior modification room. They use three kind of
teaching system, LOVAAS for the educational environment, PECS for the picture communication,
and TEEACH behaviors modification.
2-3.(best
part of volunteer, and support the
community)
The volunteer in the Autism center is usually helping the teacher in controlling
the student because every teacher has three students, so it is large number.
And some time we teach them or guiding them. In the art class we was drawing
with them and teaching them the differences between the colors. One of our
special volunteer was in Alzohor class the highest class level where the
student greeted us and we spelled the Arabic word, and English word with them. Always
at 10:30 student have breakfast break, and the Autism center provide a certain
meal , we helped them in eating. Also in the fitness room we were guiding the
student to take around surround the room, we helped them in jumping over the
ball, and in collecting the small balls to a container. The best part of my
volunteer was the music class it was wonderful to see the student laughing and dancing,
we used music instruments and singing sample music. In this volunteer we
support part of the community to develop their skills. We felt about them
situation how hard for them for communicate and sent a massage about one part
of our community which is Autism.
4.(
all I learned)
In the end we learnt many things in the volunteering About the Autism in
the world and especially in UAE. About the new technologies in teaching and how
it could make the patients appear their skill. Also I know that there are many famous
people are autism and how they work hard and make a change , so there is no
impossible.
