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Mass media with its different types represents one of the most important sources on which the public depends, in order to be aware and updated with events and life affairs. Public dependence on the media is constantly increasing due to the mounting interest in events and current affairs, along with the consequent developments, which made some of the media available for the various categories of the public. For this reason, some of the mass media became the main resources of information, on which the public builds its opinions and thoughts and forms its trends and conducts depending on it.
The audio, video and readable means of mass media contribute through various coverage of different issues and events to form public opinion and influence it.  It became the frame that people depend on in finalizing their viewpoints on current issues and problems. It also works on their education and enlightenment in different aspects of their life especially those related to health.
Disability is considered as a social/health issue; some causes of which could be avoided and its psychological and social impacts on the person with disability and his surrounding family could be reduced. Because mass media plays a big role in forming public opinion on disability issues, causes and ways of their prevention in local press, it needs good deal of consideration and care.
Press efforts, which mass media is supposed to carry out in serving disability issues, could be enlisted under what is called “awareness efforts” which seek to familiarize different classes of society with the disability causes and ways of prevention, besides the explanation of the means and approaches that reduce the disability’s negative impacts on both individuals and society. Therefore, this study sought to determine how the Saudi press handled the disability issue through realizing the technical approaches used by the Saudi press to cover disability.
The study had concluded many recommendations, which the investigator expects that they will develop the quantity and quality of the disability coverage. Some other recommendations were reached, and hopefully, are expected to help the mass media and other authorities specialized in disability in developing mass media and its role in serving the disability issues

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Sheikh Mohamed bin Omar Qassim Al-Eissae

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