A THEORETICAL ANALYTICAL STUDY OF SOME ISSUES RELATED TO CARING FOR AND EDUCATING INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES FROM A SOCIO-CULTURAL AND LEGAL PERSPECTIVE
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Nowadays, a group of issues related to educating and caring for individuals with disabilities have arisen, which raised a heated controversy as they relate to a highly debated socio-cultural and legal dimension and are still disputed among expert scholars in this field. These include problems related to vaccination and its role in causing children to suffer from some disabilities and disorders, the sterilization of individuals with intellectual disability, stem cells therapy and its role in limiting disabilities, using medical drugs to ameliorate or treat some disorder symptoms, and educating persons with disability in higher education institutes and its constraints. These have, undoubtedly, diverse effects on those individuals as well as their families, which requires an in-depth study to clarify the various views concerned with them in relation to the opinion of religious institutions, the prevailing societal and ethical stance, as well as the legal and legislative perspective related to them. This study, thus, aims at deeply studying these issues in order to clarify the ambiguity surrounding them.
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