mile Foundation’s I am Kalam has so far won 12 national and international awards. The film has travelled to over 25 film festivals across the globe. The film has been chosen by the audience over cult films like 3 Idiots, Udaan and Dhobi Ghaat at several film festivals.
R. Priya, a visually challenged girl of V.V.V. College for Women in Virudhunagar, had an unusual project in mind for her M.Phil dissertation – ‘Rehabilitation programme for women at the Vellore special prison.’
Parents and family need to fulfill certain responsibilities in order to function. A family must generate income, protect and maintain its members and home, nurture and love one another and see to it that children are taught social norms and educated.
A special report on how parents of differently-abled children face a tough time to get them admission in regular schools.
The Nippon Foundation will provide full fellowships including tuitions, books, required assistive technology and other support services, to a small group of individuals with disabilities to pursue graduate studies (Master’s level) in Comparative and International Disability Policy (CIPD), beginning in August 2011 at the recently establishment Institute on Disability and Public Policy (IDPP) for the ASEAN region.
Teaching a student with multiple disabilities can be complicated, and becomes more so when the student is placed in a class with mainstream, able peers. In this setting, the teacher must not only ensure that the academic needs of the multi-disabled student are being met, but also that he is being accepted socially. Class activities present the chance to do both, and require continued, concerted efforts.
Teaching is a challenging profession as it is, but when you are charged with providing students with multiple disabilities a quality education, you must be prepared. Certain activities and ideas can give you the edge in the classroom and, consequently, give them the edge in life that they may have missed otherwise.
Teachers in today’s schools teach children with disabilities along with the mainstream students. Strategies for instruction of all types of learning at the same time are imperative. Teachers must use a variety of techniques to reach students who learn best by seeing, hearing, writing, or all three.
This workshop focuses on strengthening competencies of those involved in capacity building and consulting for civil society organisations, in the area of communication for community organising and advocacy using Popular Education/ Communication.
Things get more complex when a person has more than one disability. Let’s examine what happens when a person is both deaf and blind. The major difficulty in this case is that while blind people are mostly compensated by technology through sound, deaf blind people cannot take advantage of these solutions.