Learning Disabilities in India

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Government policy for the Disabled

The “Rehabilitation Council of India Act, 1992” entitles a child with special needs be taught by a trained person. The “Persons with Disabilities Act, 1995” section 25 to 31 paved ways for the many provisions in the area of education like prevention, early detection, ensuring free compulsory education in an appropriate environment, reservations in the higher education institutions and employment opportunities. Various schemes and programs were a part of this act. (Empowerment, n.d.). One such is the “Education of Children and Youth with Disabilities” schemes such as the Integrated Education for Disabled that provide incentives for including students with disabilities into the mainstream (Singal, 2008). Inclusive Education in India entered by the signing of the Salmanca Statement in 1994. This paved the way for “District Primary Education Program (DPEP) and Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA). In Singal 2009 the focus areas of SSA have been listed out as identification, assessment, provision for assistive devices, collaboration between the non government organizations and various schemes, training and appointment of teachers and development of appropriate curriculum for the students with special needs.

However, as Singal 2004 states the evident ambiguity in the term “integrated” and “inclusion” at the government level itself. The medical model of disability is predominant which emphasizing on identifying and assessing children to provide funds and aids like ramps for the physically disabled. The requirement for community based rehabilitation has not come into the picture. Another discrepancy noted, is in the number of people affected by disability as there are no reliable data from the Government sour...

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Singal, N., 2009. "Paper commissioned for the EFA Global Monitoring Report 2010, Reaching the marginalized”, s.l.: UNESCO.

Sriprakash, A., 2010. Child-centred education and the promise of democratic learning: Pedagogic messages in rural Indian primary schools. International Journal of Educational Development 30 (2010) 297–304, Volume 30, p. 303.

Verma, P., 2008. Learning Disability. In: G. M. V. D. A. J. P. Komilla Thapa, ed. Perspectives on Learning Disabilties. New Delhi: Sage, pp. 160 -165.

Vidya Agarwal, D. Y. a. V., 2008. A Base-line study of learning disabilities. In: Perspectives of Learning Disabilities in India. New Delhi: Sage, p. 223.

Yagnik, C. U. &. B., 2014. Teacher helps disabled student bloom. The Times of India, 6th Febraury.

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