Associate Professor
Mohammad Ahmad Mustafa Beirat

Curriculum Vitae
  • Major: Special Education
  • College: Faculty of Educational Sciences
  • Department(s): Special Education Department
  • E-mail: beirat@ahu.edu.jo
  • Phone No.: 00962775496004

Professional and Personal Bio Summary and Research Interests of Dr. Mohammad Ahmad Mustafa Al-Beirat Personal Information: Dr. Mohammad Ahmad Mustafa Al-Beirat, born on March 18, 1979, is a Jordanian national. He currently serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Special Education at the College of Educational Sciences, Al-Hussein Bin Talal University, Jordan. Dr. Al-Beirat resides in Amman, Jordan. Research Interests and Specialization: Dr. Al-Beirat’s research interests are focused on the field of special education, encompassing the development of ethical standards for the special education profession and evaluating their application in Jordan. His work also addresses a variety of areas within special education, including developmental and intellectual disabilities, learning difficulties, and sensory impairments. Additionally, he has expertise in supervising programs tailored for individuals with special needs. His professional background includes training and preparing special education teachers to support students with various disabilities. Academic Qualifications: • PhD in Special Education (Distinction), World Islamic Sciences and Education University. • Master’s Degree in Special Education (Very Good), University of Jordan. • Bachelor’s Degree in Psychological Counseling, Yarmouk University. • Diploma in Special Education, Lund University, Sweden. Professional Experience: Dr. Al-Beirat has extensive experience in university-level teaching, practical training, and supervising field training programs. He has held various academic positions, including Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, and Lecturer at Al-Hussein Bin Talal University. Additionally, he has lectured at several other universities and colleges and supervised special education programs for students with disabilities in Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Academic Achievements and Contributions: Dr. Al-Beirat has published numerous scholarly articles in the fields of special education and family counseling. He has also contributed to the development of academic programs and educational curricula. He plays an active role in various university committees, such as the Graduate Studies Committee and the Curriculum Development Committee. Dr. Al-Beirat has taught multiple courses related to special education and family counseling at the undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral levels. Contact Information: Email: beirat@ahu.edu.jo Phone: +962775496004

Research Interests: Contemporary Special Education: Trends and Challenges, Applied Behavior Analysis, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Counseling Families of Individuals with Special Needs, Early Intervention, Learning Disabilities, Field Training in Special Education, Individuals with Disabilities and Society, Rights of Individuals with Disabilities, Disability Education, and Inclusive Education.

Conferences and Scientific Symposia: • 1st International Trabzon Scientific Conference on Social and Human Sciences, held at Aydın University, Turkey, from July 12-14, 2024. Presentation Title: Emotional Security of Children with Disabilities Unaccompanied by Their Families and Its Relationship with Certain Variables. • 4th Scientific Conference on Business Intelligence: Opportunities and Challenges, held in Istanbul, Turkey, from May 13-16, 2024. Presentation Title: Available Health Services for Students with Disabilities in Inclusive Schools in Jordan from the Parents' Perspective: An Exploratory Study. • Third Conference of the Faculty of Educational Sciences: "Educational Sciences in the Light of Contemporary Developments", held on June 21-22, 2011 at Al-Hussein Bin Talal University (Member of the Organizing Committee).

Seminars and Workshops (Participation and Attendance for Community Service) • Provided consultations in areas related to assessing and diagnosing individuals with disabilities and behavior modification at centers, associations, and schools under the Ministry of Education in Ma'an Governorate (2008-present). • Participated in several community initiatives related to voluntary work and voluntary associations under the Southern Badia Education Directorate. • Conducted numerous volunteer training sessions in schools within the districts of Shobak, Al-Husayniya, and Petra. • Delivered awareness sessions on educating children with disabilities for mothers and families in the Wadi Musa community, at the Wadi Musa Community Services Center on 4/12/2018. • Attended the seminar on "School Readiness for Integrating Disabled Students in Public Schools," held at Al-Madina Al-Wardiya School, Petra, on 17-18/10/2016, by the Higher Council for the Affairs of People with Disabilities. • Contributed to the First Scientific Day for People with Disabilities, on 6/6/2015, at the All for Education Center for Child Development and Capacity Building. • Organized a training workshop on "Field Training: Vision and Aspirations" at Al-Manar Intellectual Development Center, Wadi Musa, on 20/4/2015. • Held a workshop on "Teaching Aids" at Al-Hussein Bin Talal University, sponsored by the University President, along with cooperating centers and associations for training field training students on Tuesday, 9/12/2014. • Conducted a training session on "Inclusion and Transition Services," "Self-Assessment and Follow-up Methods," lasting 5 training hours, on 2/9/2014 by the Higher Council for the Affairs of People with Disabilities. • Led a training session on "Inclusive Schools Standards," "Supportive Educational Environments," and "Support Services for People with Disabilities," with a total of 15 hours of training, at 10th Secondary School, Aqaba, from 1-3/12/2014, as appointed by the Higher Council for the Affairs of People with Disabilities. • Delivered a course titled "Autism: Characteristics, Programs, and Diagnosis" at Al-Rabba Center, Karak, for social and health employees in the southern region, from 24-27/8/2014, over four days, as appointed by the Higher Council for the Affairs of People with Disabilities. • Held a course titled "Inclusion, Transition Services, and Self-Assessment" at the Comprehensive Aqaba Special Education Center, with 5 training hours on 28/8/2014, aimed at Ministry of Education teachers in the southern region. • Conducted a course on "Individual Educational Programs" at the Institute of Public Administration, for 10 training hours on 28/12/2013, appointed by the Higher Council for the Affairs of People with Disabilities. • Participated in the Special Education Conference, part of the Swedish Tempus Project (Joint European Projects for Training Course Organization to Build Institutions) at Al-Hussein Bin Talal University, presenting a paper titled "Future Aspirations for Special Education" from 15-17/2/2010. • Attended the seminar on "Psychiatric Disorders in Primary Health Care, North Jordan" on 27/2/2013, organized by the Higher Council for Science and Technology. • Participated in the Petra Education Directorate Conference, presenting a paper titled "Preparing Schools for Inclusion: Their Readiness," on 11/5/2010. • Supervised and followed up on the establishment of a vocational rehabilitation project and a knitting course for students with intellectual disabilities at Al-Manar Intellectual Development Center in Ma'an, on 2/3/2009. • Organized a course on inclusion of children with special needs at the Southern Association for Special Education in Ma'an, on 7/6/2008. • Held a workshop on behavior modification for children with disabilities at Al-Manar Intellectual Development Center, Ma'an, on 5/7/2008. • Participated in the Ministry of Social Development's activities in Ma'an, in collaboration with Al-Manar Intellectual Development Center, supervising and following up on programs for people with special needs, on 21/4/2008. • Participated in the third Arab Course on Training Autism Teachers, organized by the Autism Children's Association in cooperation with Bayt Al-Amal, from 23-26/8/2004. • Attended a seminar titled "Dietary Perspective as an Auxiliary Therapeutic Basis for Autistic Children," at the Specialized Academy for Special Education. • Attended the "Special Education in Jordan" workshop held at Yarmouk University in collaboration with the Korean International Cooperation Agency on 29/10/2018. • Participated in the multidisciplinary team seminar in special education held at Al-Hussein Bin Talal University on 29/4/2009, presenting a paper titled "Rehabilitation of People with Disabilities: Vision and Aspirations." • Participated in the Tempus Inclusion Seminar at Al-Hussein Bin Talal University on 15/2/2009, presenting a paper titled "Towards a Future Vision for Learning Resource Rooms: A Swedish Tempus Project." • Attended the "Prevention of Disability" seminar at Princess Aisha College of Nursing in Ma'an, organized by Ma'an Development Directorate on 4/5/2010, presenting a paper on "Ways to Eliminate the Social Stigma Associated with Disabilities." • Participated in the Special Education in the Southern Region Seminar organized by the Petra Region Commission, presenting a paper on "The Reality of Disability in Ma'an Governorate and the Challenges Facing Associations Caring for People with Disabilities" in 2011. • Presented a paper titled "Learning Difficulties and Other Related Concepts" at a seminar on Learning Resource Rooms held at the College of Archaeology, Tourism, and Hotel Management in Ma'an, organized by the Petra Education Directorate, on 27/4/2010. ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ Awareness Lectures for Community Service • Bullying and Its Impact on Children, Families, and Society School: Al-Basta Basic Mixed School, 2024. • Self-Development and Facing Challenges School: Umm Al-Hakam Basic Mixed School. • Learning Disabilities and Methods for Addressing Them Association: Southern Association for Special Education. • Community Care for People with Disabilities Center: Ma'an Events Center. • The Role of Mothers in Caring for Their Children with Disabilities School: Abdulrahman Bin Awf Basic Mixed School. • Transition Services Center: Wadi Musa Center for Inclusive Services. • Behavior Modification for Children with Disabilities Center: Al-Manar Intellectual Development Center, Ma'an. • Rehabilitation Services for People with Disabilities Employees: Ministry of Labor in the Southern Region. • Supervision in Disability Work Programs School: Naseeba Al-Mazniya Secondary Comprehensive School. • Action Plans for Disability Cases and Educational Programs School: Khadijah Bint Khuwaylid Basic School. raining Courses Attended • Training Course: "Applying the Stanford-Binet Test, Fifth Edition, Adapted for the Jordanian Environment" Organized by the Higher Council for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the National Community Rehabilitation Institute/Mutah University, Prince Hassan Center for Early Disability Diagnosis - Karak Duration: 13/09/2020 to 17/09/2020, 25 training hours. • E-Learning Software Course 2023. • Course on Integrating Children with Disabilities into General Education Organized by the Ministry of Education, Jordan. • Portage Early Intervention Program Course for Assessing and Training Mothers of Disabled and Typically Developing Children Organized by Al-Hussein Association for the Care and Rehabilitation of Children with Motor Disabilities, Amman, Jordan Duration: 22/03/2003 to 03/05/2003. • Computer Usage Course Certified by the Ministry of Education, Al-Multaqa Cultural Center Duration: 02/03/2000 to 15/05/2000. • University Teaching Course University of Al-Hussein Bin Talal, 2014. • Course for Gifted and Outstanding Students (CoRT) Organized by De Bono Center for Thinking, 06/08/2008. • Training of Trainers (TOT) Course 2015. • Course on Diagnosing Students with Autism Organized by the Jordanian Autism Center, Amman, Um Udhaynah Duration: 28/02/2004 to 29/02/2004. • Course on Key Educational Programs for Autism Organized by the Jordanian Autism Center, Amman, Um Udhaynah Duration: 28/02/2004 to 29/02/2004. • Course on Developing the Performance of New Faculty Members University of Al-Hussein Bin Talal, 28/10/2009 to 08/11/2009. ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ Training Courses Delivered (Dr. Mohammad Al-Beirat - Trainer) Several workshops and training courses have been conducted in the fields of education, social issues, and human development, covering areas such as the Ma'an District, Al-Shoubak District, Al-Husayniyah District, Petra Region, Suwaymira Area, the Aqaba Special Economic Zone, and Amman, including: - The training programs related to educational issues include: Applied Behavior Analysis Special Needs Rehabilitation Individualized Educational Programs. Measurement and Diagnosis in Special Education. Family Counseling for Individuals with Special Needs Design and Production of Educational Aids Inclusion of Individuals with Disabilities in Regular Schools. Learning Disabilities: Concept and Implications. Educational Tools: Concept, Characteristics, and Effects. Transitional Services for Individuals with Disabilities. • Practical Programs for People with Disabilities: o A program for developing social interactions and reducing withdrawal in the Deaf community. o Anger management and improving psychological flexibility in deaf and hard-of-hearing students. o Play therapy to develop communication skills in children with autism and intellectual disabilities. o PECS program. o TEACCH program. o A program for developing orientation and mobility skills for individuals with visual impairments. o A program to enhance communication skills for students with speech and language disorders. o A program for developing cognitive skills for students with learning disabilities. o A comprehensive support services program for students with moderate and severe disabilities. o A functional skills program for individuals with sensory impairments. External Training Programs: • A training course held between 8/3/2015 and 12/3/2015 at the King Khalid Women's Charity Association / Tabuk, Saudi Arabia, which included the following topics: 1. Comprehensive Autism Course. 2. Course on Functional Behavior Analysis and developing behavioral plans. 3. Course on hyperactivity and attention deficit disorder. 4. Course on language problems and initial diagnostic mechanisms.

Date Assignment Title Committee 26/10/2020م Member Cultural Committee of the College 26/10/2020م Chairperson Professional Diploma Committee in Learning Disabilities 26/10/2020م Member Research Committee of the College 26/10/2020م Member The Curriculum Committee of the College 26/10/2020م Chairperson The Timetable and Examinations Committee of the College 3/10/2020م Member The Graduate Studies Committee of the Department 3/10/2020م Chairperson The Timetable and Examinations Committee of the Department 3/10/2020م Chairperson The Curriculum Development Committee of the Department 1/10/2019م Member Member of the Research Committee in the College of Educational Sciences 1/10/2019م Member Member of the Graduate Studies Committee in the Special Education Department 6/12/2018م Chairperson Approval of the Knowledge Domains for the Programs of the College of Educational Sciences 19/ 11/ 2018م Chairperson Assigning the Dean of the College of Educational Sciences to Establish a Resource Room at the Applied School of the University of Al Hussein Bin Talal 19/11/2018م Chairperson Establishment of a Program and Resource Room at the Applied School of the University of Al Hussein Bin Talal 19/11/2018م Member The Curriculum Committee of the College 19/11/2018م Member The Graduate Studies Committee of the College 19/11/2018م Member The Council of the College of Educational Sciences 1/11/2018م Member The Timetable and Examinations Committee of the College 24/10/2018م Member The Student Affairs Investigation Committee in the College of Educational Sciences 14/10/2018م Chairperson The Committee for Establishing the Master's Program in Special Education 14/10/2018م Chairperson The Committee for Establishing the Bachelor's Program in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) 14/10/2018م Chairperson The Committee for Establishing the Bachelor's Specialization in School Counseling 14/10/2018م Chairperson The Committee for the Destruction of Files and Exam Papers 1/10/2018م Member The Committee for Enhancing the Educational Outcomes of the College of Education in Jordanian Universities and Defining Learning Outcomes 30/9/2018م. Acting Head of the Department The Special Education Department 14/9/2017م Member The Faculty Members' Files Committee 14/9/2017 Member The Curriculum Committee of the Special Education Department 17/10/2016م Chairperson The Committee for Describing the Courses of the Special Education Plan 20/12/2016م Chairperson The Committee for Preparing the Final Exams Schedule 12/10/2015م Member The Committee for Investigating Students in the College of Educational Sciences 2014/2015م Member The Committee for Investigating Student Affairs at the University 2014- 2015 م Representative of the Faculty of Educational Sciences The University Council 4/5/2015م Chairperson The Committee for Preparing the Monitoring Program for the Second Semester 7/12/2014م Chairperson The Committee for Following Up and Evaluating the Creative Work Competition for Special Education Students 23/10/2014م Member The Committee for Investigating Students in the College 10/3/2013م Chairperson The Committee for Responding to the Higher Education Institutions Authority Letter 7/10/2013م Member The Committee for Reviewing the Special Education Plan 2013م Member The Cultural Committee in the Department 2013م Chairperson The Social Committee in the Department 1/10/2013م Member The Committee for Investigating Student Violations 2012/2013م Representative of the Special Education Department The Council of the College of Educational Sciences 16/9/2013 Secretary General for the Academic Year 2013/2014 The Special Education Department 20/9/2012م Chairperson The Cultural Committee 9/9/2012م Member The Social Committee 20/9/2012م Member The Cultural Committee in the College 9/9/2012م Member The Curriculum Committee 4/12/2012م Member The Committee for Establishing the Bachelor's Specialization in Counseling and Mental Health 19/10/2010م Chairperson The Curriculum Committee 2009م Member The Cultural Committee in the College

Thesis Title Student Name Role Degree / Institution Date of Defense - "Effectiveness Level of Educating Students with Special Needs in Regular Schools in the City of Tabuk from the Teachers' Perspective" Ibrahim bin Yahya Othman Hamdi Supervisor Master's Degree in General Curricula and Teaching Methods / Al-Hussein Bin Talal University 9/5/2017 "Effectiveness of a Group Counseling Program for Developing Parental Competence in Mothers of Academically Outstanding Students" Alaa Salah Qasim Salah Supervisor Master's Degree in Family Counseling / Al-Hussein Bin Talal University 21/12/2020 "Degree of Cognitive Interchange Between Spouses Regarding Their Characteristics and Its Relation to Marital Satisfaction" Anas Abdul Karim Al-Khlifat Supervisor Master's Degree in Family Counseling / Al-Hussein Bin Talal University 22/5/2021 "Time Management Among Workers at Al-Hussein Bin Talal University and Its Relationship with Marital Satisfaction" Amani Atef Abbas Al-Towaisi Supervisor Master's Degree in Family Counseling / Al-Hussein Bin Talal University 1/9/2022 "Building a Proposed Model for People with Disabilities Based on Global Standards and Trends and Measuring Its Impact on Improving Their Life and Social Skills in Jordan" Jamal Abdul Nasser Ali Al-Hourani External Examiner PhD in General Curricula and Teaching Methods / Curriculum and Instruction Department / Mutah University 19/5/2022 "Level of Sustainable Development Provided for Students with Learning Disabilities in Public Schools from the Teachers' Perspective" Obada Mohammed Abdul-Majid Al-Saraira External Examiner Master's Degree in Special Education / Special Education Department / Mutah University 30/5/2023 "Level of School Administration's Practice of Its Role in Educational Programs for Students with Learning Disabilities in Public Schools from the Teachers' Perspective" Rahaf Iyad Taysir Al-Shawara External Examiner Master's Degree in Special Education / Special Education Department / Mutah University 9/5/2023 "Degree of Implementation of Positive Behavior Support Approach by Learning Disabilities Resource Room Teachers in Jordan" Maryam Khalid Ali Al-Tawafrah Internal Examiner Master's Degree in Special Education / Special Education Department / Queen Rania College for Childhood / Hashemite University 15/5/2023 "Attitudes of Newly Married Women Towards Children with Disabilities and Their Relationship with Childbirth Fears" Razan Mazen Al-Safouti Internal Examiner Master's Degree in Special Education / Special Education Department / Queen Rania College for Childhood / Hashemite University 15/5/2023 "Effect of a Play Therapy-Based Program in Reducing Maladaptive Behaviors in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder" Rawan Ahmad Fawaz Khader Internal Examiner Master's Degree in Special Education / Special Education Department / Queen Rania College for Childhood / Hashemite University 17/5/2023 "Degree of Satisfaction of Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder with the Services Provided to Their Children in Early Childhood" Salsabeel Ahmad Al-Ghadran Internal Examiner Master's Degree in Special Education / Special Education Department / Queen Rania College for Childhood / Hashemite University 24/5/2023 "Level of Knowledge of First-Grade Teachers about the Basics of Teaching Disabled Students and Its Relation to Their Attitudes Towards Including Them in Regular Schools in Ma'an Governorate" Moath Khaled Al-Rafouh Internal Examiner Master's Degree in General Curricula and Teaching Methods / Al-Hussein Bin Talal University 7/5/2018 "Effectiveness of a Rational-Emotional Group Counseling Program in Reducing Psychological Stress in Mothers of Children with Disabilities in Ma'an Governorate" Basma Abdul-Muttalib Al-Shroosh Internal Examiner Master's Degree in Family Counseling / Al-Hussein Bin Talal University 26/11/2019 "Family Resilience and Its Relationship to Mental Health in Gifted Students at King Abdullah II School for Excellence in Aqaba Governorate" Asil Abdullah Al-Zuwaida Internal Examiner Master's Degree in Family Counseling / Al-Hussein Bin Talal University 16/12/2019 "Effect of Reading School Test Questions for Students with Dyslexia on Their Academic Achievement in Private Schools in Aqaba Governorate" Malik Rateb Al-Roud Internal Examiner Master's Degree in General Curricula and Teaching Methods / Al-Hussein Bin Talal University 2/6/2020 "Level of Perceived Family Support and Its Relationship with Emotional Security Among New University Students" Yazid Taha Al-Shamayleh Internal Examiner Master's Degree in Family Counseling / Al-Hussein Bin Talal University 4/6/2020 "Family Conflict and Its Relationship with Social Media Use Among Adolescents in Ma'an Governorate" Sarah "Mohammad Rouhi" Ghazal Internal Examiner Master's Degree in Family Counseling / Al-Hussein Bin Talal University 6/1/2021 "Effectiveness of a Gestalt Group Counseling Program in Reducing Birth Anxiety in a Sample of Pregnant Women" Najood Abdullah Awda Al-Sabihat Internal Examiner Master's Degree in Family Counseling / Al-Hussein Bin Talal University 22/8/2021 "Family Climate and Its Relationship with Bullying Among Adolescents in Aqaba City" Mohammad Walid Ahmad Al-Juhani Internal Examiner Master's Degree in Family Counseling / Al-Hussein Bin Talal University 11/4/2021 "Religiousness, Irrational Thoughts, and Their Relationship with Marital Adjustment Among Couples in Ma'an Governorate" Ruba Nayef Kreshan Internal Examiner Master's Degree in Family Counseling / Al-Hussein Bin Talal University 1/7/2020 "Sense of Security and Its Relationship with Domestic Violence Among a Sample of Secondary School Students in Ma'an City" Jehad Dheeb Al-Imami Internal Examiner Master's Degree in Family Counseling / Al-Hussein Bin Talal University 6/4/2021

Certificates of Appreciation and Recognition: • Thank you letter from the Directorate of Social Development / Ma'an, dated 21/4/2009. • Recognition at the "Together My Life is Better" Conference, 2010 / Asma' bint Abi Bakr School / Directorate of Education, Wadi Musa. • Honorary shield from the Sultanate of Oman Embassy / 2011. • Honorary shield from Al-Manar Center for Intellectual Development / Ma'an / First semester / 2012. • Appreciation and thanks from Umm Al-Hakam Mixed Basic School, Ma'an / First semester / 2013. • Honorary shield from Al-Rajef Association for Special Education / Second semester / 2014. • Honorary shield from Al-Manar Center for Intellectual Development / Ma'an / Second semester / 2014. • Appreciation and thanks from the Faculty of Educational Sciences for supervising and following up on field training students / 2015. • Honorary shield from Al-Janoob Association for Special Education / First semester / 2015. • Appreciation and thanks from King Khalid Charity Academy / Tabuk for training teachers of the Special Needs Children Academy, 3/2015. • Honorary shield from Al-Manar Center for Intellectual Development / Directorate of Social Development / Petra District / Second semester / 2016. • Appreciation and thanks from the Islamic Center Association in collaboration with UNICEF / Safe Centers and Remedial Education Project. • Appreciation and thanks from Nisbah Secondary School / 9/4/2016. • Appreciation and thanks from Special Education Department students / 4/2016. • Appreciation and thanks from Field Training students / 2016/2017 academic year.

Academic Ranks: • Associate Professor (on scientific leave), Department of Special Education, Queen Rania Faculty for Childhood, The Hashemite University, for the academic year 2022/2023, from October 2, 2022, to October 2, 2023. • Associate Professor, Department of Special Education, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Al-Hussein Bin Talal University, from June 19, 2019, to present. • Assistant Professor, Department of Special Education, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Al-Hussein Bin Talal University, from June 19, 2014, to June 18, 2019. • Lecturer (Category A), Department of Special Education, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Al-Hussein Bin Talal University, from June 20, 2013, to June 18, 2014. • Lecturer (Category B), Department of Special Education, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Al-Hussein Bin Talal University, from October 12, 2011, to June 19, 2013. • Instructor, College of Rafha, Northern Border University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, from January 30, 2011, to May 29, 2011, for one semester. • Full-time Lecturer, Department of Special Education, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Al-Hussein Bin Talal University, from March 10, 2008, to October 11, 2011. • Full-time Lecturer, Department of Special Education, Al-Andalus College, Al-Balqa Applied University, Amman, from October 1, 2007, to February 28, 2008. • Full-time Lecturer, Educational Department, Al-Quds College (now Luminus Technical University College), Al-Balqa Applied University, Amman, from October 1, 2004, to June 9, 2006.

Administrative and Professional Experience: • Head of the Special Education Department, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Al-Hussein Bin Talal University, from September 30, 2018, to September 30, 2019. • Assistant to the Dean of the Faculty of Educational Sciences for Field Education Affairs, from September 8, 2013, to September 25, 2015. • Consultant and Expert for providing training services at Sand Center for Child Development, Ma'an, from July 17, 2022, to present. • Trainer for New Special Education Teachers, Al-Hussein Bin Talal University, Ma'an, Jordan, from March 10, 2008, to present. • Supervisor for a Special Program for a Child with Autism, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from May 11, 2006, to June 14, 2007. • Learning Disabilities and Slow Learner Teacher, Special Education Department, Al-Ahlia School, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from December 2, 2006, to June 20, 2007. • Autism Class Teacher, Arab Center for Special Education, from July 1, 2003, to September 30, 2004. • Program Supervisor and Implementation Follow-up, Jordanian Specialized Center for Autism, Amman, Um Udhaynah, from August 1, 2004, to December 1, 2004. • Examiner for the Comprehensive Exam for Jordanian Community Colleges, Al-Balqa Applied University, Special Education Department, Paper 4, for two academic years (2004, 2005). • Evaluator for the Comprehensive Exam for Jordanian Community Colleges, Paper 5, for the academic years 2004 and 2005. • Learning Disabilities Teacher, Ammar Bin Yasir Secondary School for Boys, Irbid, Jordan, from February 15, 2002, to May 27, 2002. • Trainer for Special Education Courses, Specialized Academy for Preparing and Training Qualified Personnel, Amman, Um Al-Samaq, during 2005. • Trainer of Trainers (TOT).

Special Education and counselling Family

 Academic Teaching Experience: Al Hussein Bin Talal University • Bachelor's Program in Special Education: The following courses were taught: Assessment and Diagnosis in Special Education Introduction to Special Education Intellectual Disabilities Early Intervention Principles of Counseling and Guidance Counseling Families of Children with Special Needs Behavioural and Emotional Disorders Applied Behaviour Analysis Field Training in Special Education Inclusion in Regular Schools Learning Disabilities Teaching Methods for Mathematics for Individuals with Special Needs Visual Impairment Developmental Psychology Teaching Methods for Arabic Language for Individuals with Special Needs Support Services in Special Education Principles of Psychology Special Education Contemporary Issues and Trends in Special Education Hearing Impairment Rehabilitation of Individuals with Special Needs Autism Spectrum Disorders Programs for Gifted and Talented Students Physical and Health Disabilities Master's Program in Family Counseling: The following courses were taught: 1- Research Project in Family Counseling 2- Group Counseling Higher Diploma Program in Education: The following course was taught: 1- Principles of Learning Al-Hashemite University (Academic Sabbatical ( Bachelor's Program in Special Education: The following courses were taught: (1) Children with Multiple Disabilities (2) Teaching Methods for Arabic Language for Students with Disabilities (3) Behavioral and Emotional Disorders (4) Counseling Children and Their Families in Special Education (5) Field Training in Special Education (6) Learning Disabilities

Media Activity: • Conducting several radio interviews on various audio and visual platforms discussing educational issues related to disabilities and ways to integrate them academically and school-wise, on "Voice of the South" Channel at Al-Hussein Bin Talal University, Jordan, and "Voice of Hebron" Channel, Palestine. • Hosting an audio discussion session on bullying and students with disabilities, focusing on "Psychological and Social Impacts," aired on the local Jordanian TV Channel. ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ Distinctive Personal Characteristics: Working within a team, flexibility, openness, commitment, interaction and communication, maintaining confidentiality, respect for time and its utilization, striving for professional and academic development, public speaking, and being a rich discussant in special education. ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ International Scientific Tours and Cultural Familiarization Visits: External visits included: the United States of America, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Arab Republic of Egypt (repeated visits to various cities), Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, and Turkey (repeated visits to various cities).

Academic qualifications and certificates

Academic Qualifications: • Ph.D. in Special Education, from the World Islamic Sciences and Education University, 2014, Faculty of Arts, Educational and Human Sciences, with Honors. Thesis Title: "Building a Proposed Model for the Ethical Standards of the Special Education Profession in Jordan and Determining the Degree of Their Application by Special Education Teachers in Light of Global Ethical Standards." Awarded on June 19, 2014. • Master's Degree in Special Education, from the University of Jordan, 2005, with a grade of Very Good, Thesis Program, Department of Counseling and Special Education. Thesis Title: "Parental Satisfaction with the Inclusion of Their Children with Learning Disabilities in Regular Schools." Awarded on February 14, 2005. • Bachelor's Degree in Psychological Counseling, Department of Counseling and Special Education, Yarmouk University, with a grade of Very Good. Awarded on June 24, 2002. • Diploma in Special Education, from Lund University, Sweden, awarded on April 21, 2011. • General Secondary School Certificate in the Literary Stream, Ministry of Education, Jordan, 1998, King Talal Secondary School for Boys, awarded in 1998. • Academic Practice License Certificate in Universities and Colleges, according to the decision of the Higher Education Council No. (130) for the year 2018.

office hours

11-12  جميع الايام