Deanship of Student Affairs / Student Services and Care Department - Handicapped Students Care Division.

The services provided by the department to students of special needs.

1. 1- Providing hearing impaired students / deaf students with volunteer sign language interpreters and employ students who are fluent in sign language and successfully completed their sign language courses. In some semesters, sign interpreters are used by the Supreme Council for the Affairs of Persons with Disabilities who did not hesitate for a moment to provide assistance and support.
2. 2- Providing students with visual and motor impairments with readers and writers who are available in the university’s library or during the university’s examinations. As well as supervising audio recordings of the required subjects if necessary.
3. 3- Giving the priority in students’ registration for the students with special needs at the beginning of each semester, under the cooperation between the Deanship of Student Affairs and the Admission and Registration Unit.
4. 4- Providing the students with motor impairment with wheelchairs if their own chairs are broken.
5. 5- Following up on the academic deductions for students with special needs, as the maximum admission fees that they pay to the  governmental higher education institutions do not exceed (10%) for the competitive program and (25%) for the parallel program.
6. 6- Receiving new special needs students, confirming their data, and following up the placement tests that are conducted at the beginning of each academic year for new students.
7. 7- Following-up with the problems that students might face in terms of their acceptance in the university, by directing them to write summonses at the Presidency Office and directing them to the medical committees in the health care center, as well as taking temporary permissions from the University’s Security Department to allow their entry until their official acceptance approval is taken.

   Hall of special needs students

   The hall was inaugurated on July 2013 under the patronage of His Highness Prince Raad bin Zaid.

   The hall includes the following: - (5) HP computers, (2)  wheelchairs - donated  by the Supreme Council for the Affairs of Persons with Disabilities. An electric wheelchair (1) – donated by the Supreme Council for the Affairs of Persons with Disabilities. (5) White canes – donated by the Supreme Council for the Affairs of Persons with Disabilities, Braille language magazines and a Braille language Qur’an.