Inclusive Education for 40 preschool Children

Report-Inclusive education for 40 pre-school children

We have started the awareness activities for in our target community at Dakshinpuri which stands as low socioeconomic group. Community survey workers Mrs Babita and Mrs Sarojni are a great resource in identifying the intellectually disabled children and actively involved in creating awareness about inclusive education.There were 412 house to house  surveys  conducted and 11 families were identified with disabilities in the month of May, June. Meeting with parents of non disabled and disabled children in MCD schools by the facilitators group were held.These  meetings helped in creating awareness and  positive attitude towards disability and the importance of inclusive education. It emerged that the MCD school & primary school teachers had a negative attitude towards inclusion of disabled children in their schools. This meeting helped in developing more positive attitudes in teachers and parents towards inclusive education.

Formal and informal meetings is being conducted  for mothers of the non disabled and women in general from the community .These community women were made aware of intellectual disability and the significance of inclusive education. Puppet shows,street plays  turned out to be the  effective method of  conveying the message to the low socio community.  They are happy to send their children along with the disabled children.We are in constant touch with the schools so that the disabled children could be identified and the importance of inclusive education should be realized. we are really responding to the identified needs of the mothers of the disabled as well as the non disabled and the community. So that none of them would be denied the right to education so that our efforts will eventually lead to an inclusive community. We are in the process of preparing the intellectually disabled for admission into local mainstream schools and creating an atmosphere of acceptance in the community and in the local schools to make this happen.