Rehabilitation and support services for residents with special needs in the city of Bani Walid

Abstract

Despite the conflicting numbers and statistics in Libya about the number of people with disabilities, it is a clear fact that their number is increasing significantly. The role of applied geography makes it one of the important sciences in solving society's issues. Geography's treatment of these issues sheds a lot of light on this problem away from the view of medical, social and legal sciences of this problem. This study aims to analyze the size of the population of people with special needs, their gender, age groups and the level of services provided to them in terms of saving and highlight the gap between the actual needs of this category and the size of available services. The study relied on the descriptive analytical method supported by the spatial method Through the analysis and distribution of health, educational and rehabilitation services, in addition to benefiting from official statistical data and previous studies in relevant Libya, the results of the study showed a clear deficiency in the number and quality of support services for people with special needs, in addition to their unfair spatial concentration, and the weakness of institutional integration between the concerned authorities, which reflected negatively on this category and its ability to integrate socially and economically.