Dear Zoher I can say that yesterday Amir merely scratched the surface about various issues confronting disability. Perhaps, it was the best he could do on that platform. Coming to special schools, I can take amir's and disability sectors' assertions about sending disabled kids to mainstream schools right from beginning only with a grain of salt. As rightly pointed out by you, there are a host of issues to be taken care of about the education of the disabled, particularly sensorily disabled. So, it is a good idea to have special schools till priamary level, and then integrate children with disabilities n mainstream schools by rendering necessary support and properly training/sensitizing mainstream teachers.
regarding argument that most special schools do not do justice and are malfunctioning, the same is the state of majority of mainstream schools and government policies are squarely responsible for the mess in which special schools find themselves in. So, the argument for doing away with special schools does not seem valid to me. -----Original Message----- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of zoher Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 11:25 AM To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: [AI] Satyamev jayte: don't we require special schools any more? 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 normal 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 Notice: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, use, review, distribution, printing or copying of the information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it are strictly prohibited. If you have received this email by error, please notify us by return e-mail or telephone and immediately and permanently delete the message and any attachments. The recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The Reserve Bank of India accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. 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
