For the first time in Syria ... A student challenges disability and discusses a Master's thesis in sign language

Damascus-Sana

A new achievement recorded by people with disabilities in Syria, with the discussion of the student (Hoda Haitham Muhammad), the first master’s thesis in sign language and her obtaining a degree of excellence with honors.

On one of the grades of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Damascus, Muhammad stood up to defend her message titled (Social and Behavioral Problems of Children with Hearing Disabilities), bypassing her “deafness and dumbness” with language of sign, will, determination, and support for family and friends.

The study, which was supervised by the professor in the Department of Sociology at the Faculty of Arts, Dr. Bilal Orabi, was conducted at the Institute of Hearing Disability in Damascus, where the student monitored the opinions of 20 teachers based on the education of the Institute's children aged 6 to 15 years about social and behavioral problems among children with hearing disabilities.

The study presented a set of suggestions for the professionals under this category to improve the services provided to them and to design treatment and counseling programs to alleviate the problems facing them and help parents in adopting specific methods to deal with their children and the problems facing them.

With the help of the translator, Farah Al-Tal, who voluntarily accompanies Muhammad, the latter, in a private meeting with Sana, expressed her happiness for being the first student of persons with hearing disabilities to obtain this degree and said: “I used to sit in this amphitheater to see my fellow students of the Department of Sociology at the Faculty of Arts during their discussion of the Master’s Message and I wish To stand like them one day, and my dream came true today, and I got 96 degrees out of a hundred. ”

Muhammad attributed her selection to a topic that serves the deaf class, as she is one of them and realizes the challenges they face, to increase societal awareness in dealing with them and to design counseling programs to reduce their problems, stressing that she will continue her effort to obtain a doctorate, especially as she receives all the support from her professors, her family and her husband who bear so much for her.

The Judging Committee for the study, consisting of Dr. Muhammad Al-Abdullah and Dr. Issaaf Al-Hamad, praised the efforts of the student and her adoption of a largely sound research methodology and her enrichment of the thesis with statistical numbers and its dependence on appropriate references calling for the message to be distributed to ministries and institutions concerned with caring for persons with hearing disabilities to benefit from them.

Muhammad's mother, Dr. Amal Al-Druzi at the College of Education at the Universities of Damascus and Al-Baath, said: “Her daughter has enjoyed the will and determination since childhood, and today she is a superior student and a successful mother of two girls and working at the University of Damascus with her husband who is also deaf.”

Enas Alsafan
Photography: Fidaa Shams El-Din

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