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Basic infrastructure Disability Disabled children Disadvantaged Down Syndrome Education Handicap India Infrastructure Lotha Nagaland Renchano Humtsoe RTE schools Special Children Special Needs Text books tribal Wokha World Autism Awareness Day
Today is World Autism Awareness Day; the occasion to pay closer attention to the poor situation of disabled children in India.
There are 112 primary schools, 34 middle schools and 23 high schools in Nagaland’s Wokha, but none for children with special needs. Thus, children with special needs have no option but stay uneducated as normal schools can not cater to their needs. These schools lack the infrastructure that special children need. They also do not have education materials that can help a special child overcome learning difficulties. this goes against the Right to Education Act voted in 2009, and that gives disabled children statutory right to education.
The boy with Down Syndrome in Renchano’s video is her own brother who has been deprived of his rights to education, as there are no schools where he can learn. Watching a teenager grow up only to have a bleak future is an agony for any family with children like Pilamo. It was this agony and frustration that led Renchano to produce the video, because children with special need had been ignored for a long time and Renchano felt, as a community correspondent, she has a responsibility to highlight their plight.
India has 40 to 80 million disabled persons, among whom an estimated 30 percent are children below 14 years. A tremendous effort has to be produced by the Indian Government, to fight current discrimination against them, and to ensure their full integration, at every level of society. In particular, no child should be denied education, and all the necessary requirements that would make his or her future brighter.
Is it the solution to separate special children from normal student for special care? I think not. Instead, teachers should be educate and train so as to include special children in a normal school
Most students going for Psychology go for counselling, its a recent trend which makes them charge a heavy sum for a single session, and hence, grows their chances of roaming in expensive cars and hiring maid for their work. Not many like to enter a field like special education. I spoke to my eldest sister abt my plans of being a special educator, and that day I felt like I was speaking to a typical ‘Indian’. She said in her disapproving voice how I wont get a lot of money with this as most of the special education programmes are NGO initiative, such a disapproving look that was refusing to go away even with an attempted explanation. I am not surprised with the fact that our country forgets the special children – its a very common mentality.
When I see within the walls of my house, the disapproval I get from my sister and father when I proudly talk of my plans to be involved with special education in any way possible, I realize why is it that they are ignored and forgotten.
However, my intuition tells me that this is where I will find most serenity. I will be going for it, in any way, directly or indirectly.
My greetings to the poster’s brother :]