Dear friends, Yesterday's program has importantly raised the issue of integrated education. Here it comes to my
mind is, now onwards will we not require special schools for disabled? My take on this issue is nothing can replace the need for special schools. Following arguments can support my take. 1. Every disabled child does not comes from the rich family, so he can have all the facility of assistive technology in his house. Because schools cannot provide with all the facilities. 2. As show also pointed out that some of the parents are not accept their disabled child. So it is necessary to have the special schools so that Childs parents get proper counseling to accept their child. I don't think so any normal school can do so. 3. Many of the disabled children's are over protected by their parents or many of them are overlooked by their parents. In both the case the child becomes introward, if in this situation he is put to sited school then he will not be able to cope with the situation. 4. A disabled child needs to have some special tools to face the real world, such as communication skills, presenting oneself with confidence even with disability, or handling the subjects like math's science and geography he needs to have a special education. Now just imagine in India schools are not comfortable for normal students how they are going to accommodate disabled student? Here I mean that at list special schools are necessary till 5th or 7th standard. Then the person is prepared to face the normal schools. According to me, even giving entire education is in the special environment is also not viable, as finally one has to live in the integrated society. To get our right place in the society the first thing is that a disabled should respect other disabled person. In yesterdays show there was one person who was in my school and in college also. When I was talking to him, his mother came to me and told that keep away from my son, if he lives with disabled peoples then he will develop an inferiority complex. Members please carry this thread for more discussion, so we can have enlightenment on this issue. zoher kheriwala taheri menswear mumbai. skype id zoher.kheriwala Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
