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Special Education

Notes • Identification of children with special needs: Identification of Children with special needs
(CWSN) from 0-14 age group done every year through House Hold Survey in all 70 district.
• Integration of Children With Special Need (CWSN)
• Medical assessment Camps
• Providing assistive devices to CWSN
• Teacher's Training on IED: 5 days long orientation training on IED have been given to provide
academic support to CWSN in their class.
• 45 Days Resource Teachers training: 45 days long training given to DIET lecturers teachers to
serve as a resource persons to provide academic support to all primary & upper primary schools
of their respective blocks/cluster.
• Development of Instructional Materials: 6 Folders and one teacher's handbook, 'Creative
Equal Chances', 'Towards Inclusion' and 'Abhilasha' have been prepared and printed for
providing concrete experience on disability and guidance to the parents and teachers for skill
and concept training.
• Parents Counseling : For the better knowledge and awareness of disabilities, how to teach and
help CWSN 15 - 20 active parents of CWSN have been helped. IEP of CWSN have been prepared.
According to IEP, following steps discussed in counselling:

These teachers responsible for the selected 8 - 10 schools in one block. Selection
crieteria of schools on the basis of the number of children of that disability. Teacher
deployment at block level. Itinerant teachers completed their two days orientation
training at state level.
Self Assessment
1. Fill in the blanks:
(i) Population census given the figure of about ....................... disabled in India.
(ii) The IED scheme is financed by the ministry of ......................., government of India.
(iii) The main objective of the IEDC (Integrated education for disabled children) scheme is to
provide education for the ..................... along with normal children in normal schools.
27.1.5 Type of Scheme
This is a centrally sponsored scheme under which the Central Government will assist the States/
Union Territories in its implementation on the basis of the criteria laid down. Assistance for all the
items covered in the scheme will be on 100 per cent basis but assistance for the programme would
be conditional on provision of professionally qualified staff.
27.1.6 Scope
(i) It is proposed to provide educational facilities under this scheme for children with disabilities
who can be integrated in general schools. While rehabililation assistance will be made available
to all children with disabilities, student benefits will be extended on the recommendation by
the Assessment Team.
(ii) The scope of the scheme includes pre-school training for the disabled children and counselling
for the parents. This would be an activity preparatory to the child coming into the regular
school system. It would include, among other things, special training for the hearing
handicapped children, mobility and orientation training for the visually handicapped, daily
living and communication skills training required by children with other disabilities, parent
counselling and training in home management of these children.

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