Inclusive education to become reality in Tirupur

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Move to improve infrastructure in 124 schools

Special rams and disabled

child-friendly toilets

to be built

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Tirupur, India: To ensure inclusive education, the Department of Education plans to improve infrastructure in 124 government, municipality/Corporation and government-aided schools in the district in a phased manner so as to provide a conducive learning environment for differently-abled children.

Official sources told ‘The Hindu’ that under the preliminary phase, architectural corrections of buildings would be taken up and educational materials as well as assistive devices supplied to differently-abled students in select 50 schools at an estimated outlay of Rs. 20 lakh.

The project cost was earmarked under the Centre-sponsored Inclusive Education of the Disabled at the Secondary Stage (IEDSS).

Sources said that special rams and disabled child-friendly toilets would be constructed at the schools covered under the scheme.

“The scheme will ensure that differently-abled students are given education along with the other students, instead of them being sent to special schools,” sources added. To attain the objectives, differently-abled students would be first classified on the basis of deformities like total blindness, low vision, hearing impairment, orthopedically challenged, cerebral palsy, autism and learning disabled.

Support

“This is to ensure that need-specific support devices, aids like crutches and hearing equipments can be distributed to the students and specialized tutors provided as per the requirement of the child,” education department officials said.

Awareness

For generating awareness about the scheme and train the teachers/special educators to deal with differently-abled children, special camps would be conducted in various parts of the districts.

“Even the parents of beneficiary children will be trained,” sources said.

Reference Link
http://www.hindu.com/2010/03/22/stories/2010032261020200.htm

Courtesy
The Hindu