Question

Imagine that the entrance of your school does not have a ram for children with special needs write a letter to the principal of your school requesting him or her that such a ramp may be constructed

Answer 1

Answer:

The community at large is often unaware of the potential of children with special needs.

In the popular mind, special needs are usually identified with very low expectations. Parent should believe in the value of educating children with special needs. The higher the expectations, the higher will be their acceptance in the family.

All the children with special needs must be enrolled in primary schools. After the assessment of their disabilities by a team of a doctor, a psychologist, and a special educator, in schools, the child will be placed in appropriate educational settings. Children with mild and moderate disabilities of any kind may be integrated in normal schools, severe in special schools/ remedial schools, drop outs who have problems in availing benefits of normal schools can join open schools. All the children with learning disabilities alone are first managed in the normal schools. Open and special schools also offer vocational courses also for children with disabilities.

Formal Schools

The Ministry of Human Resource Development (Department of Secondary and Higher Education) has been implementing a scheme of ‘Integrated Education for the Disabled Children’ (IEDC) in formal schools since 1982. The main objective of the scheme is to provide educational opportunities for the disabled children in normal schools so as to facilitate their retention in the school system. The disabled children who are placed in special schools should be considered for integration into common schools once they acquire the communication and daily living skills at a functional level.

The following types of children with disabilities must be integrated in the normal school system- formal as well as in non- formal schools.

Children with locomotor handicaps (O.H.)

Mildly and moderately hearing impaired

Partially sighted children

Mentally handicapped educable group (IQ 50-70)

Children with multiple handicaps ( blind and orthopaedic, hearing impaired and

Orthopaedic, educable mentally retarded and orthopaedic, visual impaired and mild hearing impaired)

Answer 2

Letter to principal requesting construction of a ramp

965,

Lucknow.

8 July, 2020.

The principal,

Little Flowers School,

Lucknow.

Subject - Request for construction of ramp for specially-abled children.

Respected Sir,

I am a student of class 8 - B. My friend is specially-abled and she faces problem while crossing the entrance of the school. Other than her, there are many other specially-abled children with the same complaint.

I request you to kindly consider their problem and make arrangements for the construction of ramp for their ease. I will be obliged with the act.

Thank you,

Yours obediently,

Rehan Zaidi.