What Are the Kingdom's Areas of Support for Persons with Disabilities?

The state guarantees the right of persons with disabilities to prevention, care, and rehabilitation services, and encourages institutions and individuals to contribute to charitable work in the field of disability. These services are provided to this group through competent authorities in the following areas:

Health areas, including:

Providing preventive, curative, and rehabilitative services, including preventive genetic counseling, conducting various examinations and laboratory analyses for early detection of diseases, and administering necessary immunizations.

Registering children born at higher risk of disability, monitoring their cases, and reporting this to the competent authorities.

Working to improve healthcare for persons with disabilities and taking the necessary measures to achieve this.

Training healthcare workers as well as first responders to accidents on how to handle the injured and administer first aid when transporting them from the accident site.

Training families of persons with disabilities on how to care for and look after them.

Educational and pedagogical areas:

These include providing educational and pedagogical services at all stages (pre-school, general education, technical education, and higher education) in accordance with the abilities and needs of persons with disabilities, facilitating their enrollment, alongside continuous evaluation of curricula and services provided in this field.

Training and rehabilitation areas:

These include providing training and rehabilitation services in line with the type and degree of disability and the requirements of the labor market, including providing vocational and social rehabilitation centers, and securing appropriate training aids. It is also worth noting the presence of the Authority of Persons with Disabilities, which seeks to empower persons with disabilities, guarantee their rights, enhance their role in society, and work on developing the services provided to them.

Employment areas:

These include employment in jobs suited to the abilities and qualifications of the person with a disability to give them the opportunity to reveal their potential, to enable them to earn an income like other members of society, and to strive to improve their performance at work through training,

Social areas:

These include programs that contribute to developing the abilities of persons with disabilities, to achieve their natural integration into various aspects of public life, and to reduce the negative impacts of disability.

Cultural and sports areas:

These include benefiting from cultural and sports activities and facilities and adapting them, so that persons with disabilities can participate in their activities domestically and internationally in accordance with their abilities.

Media areas:

These include visual, audio, and print media conducting awareness in the following areas:

Introducing disability, its types, causes, and how to detect and prevent it.

Enhancing the position of persons with disabilities in society, raising awareness of their rights, needs, abilities, contributions, and available services, and educating them about their duties toward themselves and their contributions to society.

Allocating programs targeted at persons with disabilities that ensure their coexistence with society.

Urging individuals and institutions to provide material and moral support to persons with disabilities, and encouraging volunteer work in their service.

Complementary services areas:

These include: adapting public transportation to achieve safe and secure mobility for persons with disabilities at reduced fares for the person with a disability and their companion according to the circumstances of the disability, and providing day care and home care.

Providing assistive technology devices.

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Originally published in Arabic. This English version was produced with AI-assisted translation; the Arabic original remains the reference.