“They allow us all to look at the world differently.”

Mariam Mughdusyan, a painter and the founder of the Mughdusyan Arts Center, plans to arrange classes involving the students of the Prkutyun center as well as others with special needs. Recently children with autism and the beneficiaries of the Arevik program (implemented by Aleppo NGO) visited the Mughdusyan center.

“Although not all parents and children have had a positive attitude or reaction, I believe it is a matter of presenting the issue correctly and appropriately. Now all my students and their parents agree that inclusive education has a positive impact on all of us,” Mariam Mughdusyan says. She notes that inclusive education is a mutually beneficial collaboration. “I don’t think I was performing a benevolent or sympathetic action towards these children, it’s just that they allow all of us to look at the world differently.”

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