Question

Discuss in detail the role of school in accepting and sensitising towards children with learning disabilities.

What is the role of schools in accepting and being sensitive towards children with learning disabilities?

Answer 1

1. Awareness programs should be regularly held for teachers, parents, and students to identify children with learning disabilities as soon as possible and spread necessary awareness for sensitisation towards the issue.
2. Early identification facilitates treatment and, thus, better outcomes. Informal tests can be conducted at the teacher's level.
3. These assessments may form the basis for formal tests conducted by psychologists, certified special educators, and hospitals.
4. At the school level, these children should be granted concessions in the form of allowing late submission of notebooks or parents completing their notebook or photocopying notes, leniency in deduction of marks during exams in terms of spellings, grammatical mistakes, etc.
5. At board level, the examination council gives a child concessions like getting a reader/writer, using a calculator, dropping a language like Hindi, average marking on diagram-based questions, etc.