Targeted at school administrators, School Management Committees and parents, this user-friendly guidebook outlines the physical and infrastructural barriers children with disabilities may face in accessing schools and utilizing school facilities and provides step by step guidance and practical solutions to address these barriers. It features a checklist as a simple tool that can be used to assess how accessible a school is and to point out specific areas in need of improvement.
The information in this guidebook is based on Indian national codes and building regulations such as the Guidelines for Pedestrian Facilities (Indian Roads Congress – IRC 103:2012); Model Building Bye-Laws (2011); and the revised and updated National Building Code (Bureau of Indian Standards, 2016). In addition, the Guidelines and Space Standards for Barrier Free Built Environment for Disabled and Elderly Persons (2016), were also referred to in developing this guidebook.
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