The Support Unit for Students with Special Needs provides advice to overcome the problems facing students at the scientific and academic levels, as well as social and behavioral guidance for all university students to develop their professional attitudes and interests and develop their mental health, scientific and practical capabilities to reach the required level of accredited education (locally and globally).

At the beginning, psychological support was provided to students with special needs, as they were one of the target groups within the unit, and when the tasks were multiplied, the number of cases who were accepted increased.

• A suggestion was made to establish a Support Unit for Students with Special Needs for students integrated into university education within Misr University for Science and Technology.
• The same services, rights, and organizational structure must be guaranteed to ordinary students.
• Special services are added to students, each according to his/her need.
• An evaluation is done periodically to follow up the status of students.

As part of support and efforts of Misr University For Science and Technology for its regular and disabled students, a Unit of Psychological Guidance was set up in 2009 to introduce free services to face a lot of psychological, or academic or social problems that face the students and to acquire them the necessary daily activity in a complete state of secret and keeping the data of the students.

Students from all faculties participate in introducing the services of guide and advice inside the field of the university and organizing the cultural seminars and the psychological supporting workshops and also in receiving their new friends.

Moreover, the unit introduces the supporting services for the stumbled students to help them to complete their academic and scientific journey.

In addition, there is updating the service of the psychological  fast cure for the students during the exams and the services and programs of the cognitive behavior and the individual and group sessions.

Goals:

First: Financial Support

• The unit vows to submit the students documents related to the economic situation to His Excellency the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Misr University for Science and Technology in a very confidential manner, and approvals have been issued to provide (free private university housing – transportation – means of living on campus during the study period).
• Misr University for Science and Technology offers scholarships to students with special needs to study on campus without charge.
• The university can offer some special medical devices to some students who are financially incapable.
• The university provides various services to the categories of students with special needs (autistic spectrum disorder – learning disability – attention deficit hyperactivity disorder – visual impairment – hearing impairment).

Second: Psychological Support

The psychological guidance system seeks to provide advice and help students in facing the difficulties related to their university life and help them to understand their problems and work to solve them in order to produce a generation of young people equipped with science, knowledge and the ability to make decisions.