Final Self-Reflection

Name: Abdul Rahman Ahmed AL Hashmi

ID: H00280144 CIU

Final Self-Reflection

1-Organization

I did volunteer in Zayed higher Organization so, first I will talk about the organization. Zayed higher organization was formed in 2004 and it is an organization for Humanitarian Care and Special Needs. It has many ways to help the people who are autism for example, helping them by horse riding and the called (hypnotherapy) and it is really good for autism people. This organization are doing very well with helping people who has autism and it is still develop their teaching skills and using a new technology with teaching.

 

2- Best part of volunteering

The best part of volunteering was when we went to the sport class and community class because they let us to teach the student and play with them and I really like teaching them because when I teach them something they are going to use it in their life’s I feel like im doing something important in my life also, teach a student who has autism are really hard because some of them has a problem with understanding and contacting so, this job need a lot of patient.

 

3- Support the Community

This organization are really helpful for the community because it is help all the people who are local and who has autism. The government is support this organization and there are many companies support this organization like ADNOC and AAC. I think this organization is support the community by helping this people who has autism and also, gave the student who has a problem like embarrassment so, it gave them a small salary.

 

4-All I Learned

I learned many things in this volunteer program likes how to communicate with people who has autism, how we treat them, how we discriminate the people who has autism. The important things that I have been learned in this program is how we teach them and how hard is this job. To conclude it was a good experience in my life and I think I will never forget about this good experience that I had because, it was really good and I have learned many things there.   

 

Abu Dhabi Autism Center interview Video

INTERVIEW AT AUTISM CENTER, ABU DHABI ,

Interviewer: Abdlrahman Al Hashmi
Interviewee: Mr Khalid

 

 

Abdlrahman: Alslam Alykum,. With us here Mr. Khalid from Autism Center. We would like to ask you a number of questions about Autism and conversational properties. First, what does conversation mean in Autism?

Mr. Khalid: conversation is part of language and communicate to children with autism; whether it is expressive language, receptive language or conversation in general in which the child understands the message he is being told and can deliver the message he needs to us and that would be the meaning of conversation. Also, conversation can be verbal by talking or non-verbal by using gestures, pictures or any way for a child to communicate with.

Abdlrahman: I have another question, what are the programs followed for developing language and communication for students in the center?

Mr. Khalid Here at the center we follow programs that are recognized internationally. The most popular programs is TEACCH Program, LOVAAS Program, and PECS program. The PECS program allows communicating via picture using a notebook that includes pictures of the child’s daily interests and through the notebook the child can communicate by selecting the picture or even create a sentence using a number of pictures like “I would like to use the restroom” or “I would like to eat” and with this I can understand what he wants using pictures.

We also have another program that uses software, which we use to create educational tools for the students like the examples you see on the wall that we created using a program called board maker. This program is similar to Photoshop but is easy and fast to use which suits the teacher or the child’s guardian to work on.

Abdlrahman: The third question is what are the similar problems between children with autism?

Mr. Khalid:  We all can notice that children with autism are not similar to each other. One would have some communication skills while another doesn’t have any, but we can say that they all could have three similar problems. It could be that one child has better skills in these fields than another but they all almost have these similar problems. The first problem is communicating; in which the child cannot deliver the message he wants. The second problem is imagining where he cannot imagine what he hears. The third problem is interacting, wherein he cannot interact with the people around him or the children playing in the playground with him.

Abdlrahman: What is the role of technology in facilitating communication and language for children with autism?

 

Mr. Khalid: In the last few years, technology played a big role in developing tools that helps children with autism. There are a lot of companies that are developing software and tools that help children to communicate in an easy, smooth and fun way with others. An example of these tools is a device that records voice messages that like “Alslam Alykum” to familiarize him with this message and teach him to reply to such message.  We also use this device to help him learn the names of his classmates like “What is our name?” and when he clicks on his picture, he hears his name and start learning all his classmates’ names.

Abdlrahman: Thank you Mr. Khalid.

Mr. Khalid: Thank you and pleasure meeting you.

Survey for Zayed Higher Organization

Sixth day of volunteer

Today, Wednesday 12/November/2014 (8.am to 12.pm). In the sixth day of volunteer we changed our ways in volunteer and, we were not together every person should volunteer alone and, I went to communication class and this my second time I went their and I like this class because, I think its the best class in technical teach and there are a lot of technology to teach in this class. I learned many things in communication class like how we talk to the student and how we treat them in many different things and, I think this job needs a lot of patients. The teaching system in this class are good they have a lot of great technologies like the (board maker) and (go talk). I think this class are one of the best classes that effect in the student because, its help them on how to communicate with other people and, how to say what they want and, what they need.

 

Fifth Day of Voulnteer

Today, Sunday 09/Nov/2014 (8.am to 10.am). In the Fifth day of volunteer. First, we went to communication class and it was about how to make the student communicate with the people. How to say something he need or he want. I was impressed because they have many ways to teach them how to communicate and they have a lot of technology ways like the go talk machine and other machines. In the second class we went to the sport class and it was really fun so, we were playing with them. We saw our teacher in that day so, he came to see us and to know what we do their.

Fourth Day of Voulnteer

Today, Wednesday 5th of Nov 2014 (8.am to 12.pm). In the Forth day of volunteer. First, we went to the art class and, we saw the student drawing and do some games so, we helped them when they had a difficult games. When they felt bored we make them happy by playing with them with some toys and they like the bubbles a lot. Second we went to another class and they had a music lesson so, they were singe and playing with the music tools and it was very joyful and we had a lot of fun their. When I seethis patient and they are learning and we help them I feel like I do something in my life like a achievement and I really like this feeling .

 

 

Third day of voulnteer

Today, Sunday second of Nov 2014 (8.am to 10.am). In the third day of volunteer we didn't went to any classes . we took a lecture about Autism and it was very useful . it talked about what is the Autism and how its come and how it effect in the human and what its do and there are many new information I didn't know about it for example there no any reason for the autism and there is no any medicine for this thing. There are 10,000 people has Autism in the UAE. The best school for Autism it is in Jordan. There are many things that help you to recognize that the person has Autism for example They try to touch the sky or the sun shine , when you speak with them they don't see you and answer you and they don't feel any pain .

Second day of voulnteer

Today, Wednesday 29/Oct/2014 (8.am to 12.pm). We went to the first class and there were 3 student and they were good in many games . We saw them do some thinking games and one of them was very good and he did most of the games. When they do well in the games the teacher let the student to do some thing he like for example playing in the computer or drawing so one of the student was good so the teacher let him playing in the computer and when I saw him playing in the computer he was very different and he do many things in the computer like , watching YouTube  and watching some video clips so I was very impressed. After that we want to other class for student who can read and write and talk they were good in learning and they listen and respond for everyone. Finally we want to the sport class and we helped them to do some exercises and it was fun .

First day of voulnteer

First Day volunteer ..

Today, Wednesday 22/Oct/2014 we did volunteer from 8.am to 12.pm so, we went to ZHO to start the volunteer program. First, we want to Mr.Adel Alhosani and we gave him our registration paper and a copy of ours I.D.,after that we went to see the place and the classes for the people who have autism s,o they have many classes like art class , sport class and many other classes. We saw all the classes and they did gave us lecture of how we should treat them. We want to art class and we stayed their for a while and they were so good in painting and some of them knows how to do accessories by strings that's really amazing also, They did show us that, there are many different stages for the autism ,and they put the person on the class by his autism so the classes depend by the autism if it was too bad there are a class for it.

The Plane

2903 Community Service – Volunteer Project plan form

Follow this template to organize the primary details about your volunteer project:

1.     Title of plan – Volunteering In ZHO

2.     Names of group participants:

Abdulla Ayman Almubarak – H00247317

Rashed mohammed almehairi – H00269208

Abdulrahman Ahmed Alhashmi _ H00280144

3.     Organization (name) and contact person (supervisor + email):

ZHO , adel.alhosani@zho.ae

4.     Purpose / what can you do to support the coals of the organization?

Ex: this project will help the students of Al Hosan School to develop their IT skills 

The group will volunteer as assistants during the special needs classes held in the organization by interacting with individual with special needs. This project willhelp them be more trusting and active in the society.

5.     Time/ schedule: students will volunteer for how many hours / week? Days?  

20 hour in five weeks. Does not determinate

6.     To be successful what need to be done? what are the needs of the participants?

Ex: In the end, students must be able to type 20wpm English typing. 

There are more then 12 service the ZHO provided . one of these service is the sport club. In the sport club we Talents of young people in clubs, which encouraged them to make gold and silver medals and a bronze in all their participation at all levels of the global, regional and local.

 

7.     What are the Benefits to the participants? (Both volunteers and recipients)

For the recipients they get help and knowledge that are helpful in their life, also some time its basic needs. For the volunteers they work with people who need help and treating them in varies field so they will support an important class of the community and get new experiences and informations.

8.     Any potential problems you see arising?

First , how could we connect with the people with special needs and will they accept as. Do we know how to treating them or we will take lectures. Also the biggest problem is how can we mix between studying and volunteering by scheduling the study time and volunteering. 

UNICEF Activity 1:

UNICEF Activity 1:

Open the linkhttp://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/uae_44659.html

List and discus the latest newsline events in the United Arab Emirates

-Emirates Airline donates one million frequent flyer miles to UNICEF. Great donation that will help the staffs in their missions.

-Dubai gives $100,000 cash injection for Djibouti immunization campaign. Sultan Bin Sulayem reflect good reputation about emirates by his works which always trying to help people in the whole world.

Questions for CSL Research

1.    The Main goal(s) / purpose of the organization?                           Why?

2.    History? When started by whom??                                                When?

3.    Organization – Where is the headquarters? Who is CEO?        How?           Public/private?

4.    Areas/ countries active?                                                                Where?

5.    Target recipients?                                                                          Who? 

6.    Benefits/ resources provided?  Short term vs. long term? 

What Needs are met? 

7.    General profile of a volunteer – Who would/should get involved?

•        To be an organization that wins the trust of society and efficiently achieves the objectives and expectations for the individuals with special needs and Orphans.

•        H.H. Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President, issued, during his tenure as Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, the Law No. (2) dated April 19, 2009, establishing Zayed Higher Organization for Humanitarian Care and Special Needs (ZHO)  in the emirate of Abu Dhabi.

•        as an umbrella for all humanitarian bodies, social services, orphanages, special needs institutions and any future bodies established in Abu Dhabi for humanitarian goals.

•        independent government institution we are always keen to exert  maximum efforts to provide services.

•        The headquarter in Abu Dhabi.

•        Mohamed mohamed fadel alhameli is the CEO of zayed higher organization.

•        The service is active in Abu Dhabi that provide for people with special needs.There are many benefits in the short terms, for example,    recognize the knowledge in various fields. I think there is many people like to try different kind of volunteering , so they use the short term of volunteering.in the  other hand, in the long term you specialize in particular area so aim a lot of experience.

•        General profile of a volunteer is helping the community to develop the skill of the special needs by provide more services. For example, early intervention department. Which based on the principle that early teaching and therapy have great benefits for children with special needs.  It also involves training for parents to learn how to support. 

LSH 2903 – Community Service Learning Exercise #4

This page is also from AGE UK.

http://www.ageuk.org.uk/get-involved/volunteer/volunteers-week/

What volunteer roles do the following people have?

	Name	Job
1	John McArthur	Supervisor and information volunteer
2	Samarah Hashmi	Survey analyst volunteer
3	Oliver Stannard	Copywriter volunteer
4	Stanley Parker	Market drayton shop volunteer
5	Camilla Williamson	Volunteer parliamentary assistant

Look again at these people and their jobs. What can you say about volunteering from the information in your chart?

Volunteering is not easy and we can get a lot of experience from volunteer . If we do from our hearts , god will forgive us for the bad things that we did .

LSH 2903 – Community Service Learning Exercise #3

1.                  How old were the Games volunteers? ________________all ages______________

2.                  During the Games, the volunteers had a special title. What was this special title? ______________________games makers_________________

3.                  Complete this quote from David… “… for a moment in time volunteering had a __________________profile_______________ and an ________________image______________ that they fully ______________deserved _________________ but don’t always get.”

4.                  David mentions that some of the volunteers are semi-retired. What does this mean? __________ half working _________________

5.                  Zoe worked in Events Services. Where was this located? ____________________Olympic studiom__________________________

6.                  How does she describe the experience of volunteering for the Olympics and Paralympics? __________ fantastic__________________

7.                  What benefits of volunteering, according to Zoe?

a.       __________fun___________________

b.      ____________meeting lovely people________________________

c.       ______________confident________________

d.     Satisfied & experience 

8.                  Why does David feel that volunteering in the community is so important?

-support the society is importent.

- Helping the organisation that depends on the volunteers .

Human rights (UDHR) and Maslow

Human Rights Activity 1:
Working in pairs, discuss and write how these rights relate to the different levels of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs?
1_ Article #3: personal security relates to maslow's need for personal safety.
2_Freedom from interference with privacy number 12.
3_Freedom of belief and religion .
4_Right to asylum in other countries from persecution number 14.
5_Right to marriage and family number 16.
6_Right to education number 26.

Maslow--2

Working in groups, discuss and answer the following questions:

1.     Does every human being have the rights to reach the top of the Maslow pyramid?

__NO, few people reached this level.________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2.     Does every human being have the capability of reaching that level?

_No,most of people have this rights.________________________________________________________

3.     What are the opportunities are needed to get to the higher level?

_good government which provides safety for everythings.

_having a health center or haspital everwhere.

_employing for jobs.

 _helpful relatives.

4.     What are the obstacles could stand in the way of reaching these levels?

_there is no jobs or jobs with few salary.

_bad gavernment .

5.     What could you do to help others to reach the higher levels?

_donate to charities .

Maslow-1

1.     Self-actualization  

2.     Esteem

3.     Love/Belonging

4.     Safety

5.     Physiological

__5_ Water

_1__ Problem solving

_3__ Affection

_3/4__ Family

_3__ Social interaction

_5__ Sleep

_4__ Employment

_5/4__ Health

_4__ Property

__1_ Creativity

_2__ Confidence

_5__ Food

_1__ Passions

_2__ Respect

_4__ Resources