Dear All
The paper published on the Special Needs of the Children has been circulated widely and the abstract of the same is pasted below as:
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CHILDREN
WITH SPECIAL NEEDS – CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
Lakshmi
Narayana N
Director,
Geo Rehabilitation Centre,
Hyderabad.
E-mail: grcnln@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
Key Words:
Disability, Identification, Intervention, Mainstreaming, Special Education.
Disability,
Poverty and Development are the cause and consequence of each other which
further deepens the poverty with vulnerabilities which are complex and dynamic
in nature. Under these circumstances and in the absence of matching services,
supports, protection and security, the Children with Special Needs (CWSNs) do
face several challenges to be part of the inclusive community and thus forces
them to be isolated and marginalized including invisible at all levels. In
spite of several Disability Acts and Polices which supports for Disability
Legal Frame, Training, Rehabilitation, Schemes and Benefits, still CWSNs are
facing several challenges to be in the mainstream like their normal
counterparts in the same community. In addition, increase in disability
population alarms the stakeholders that the existing prevention measures are
not effective. The study reveals the challenges of the CWSNs and ways to
transform them into opportunities with need based strategies and interventions.
Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) having several advantages works for
effective mainstreaming as a part of community development. The limitation of
having less human resources of CBR can be minimized with the combination of
regular and distance mode of special education. The suggested measures have
been tested, implemented and monitored in both urban and rural environments and
are flexible, scalable, replicable and sustainable.
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Looking forward....
All the best.
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