Education of Children with Visual Impairment: In Inclusive Scholl

Building bridges between special and mainstream education services is an appropriate international agenda of education that invites to look education of children with special needs from the human rights platform though it is also a great challenge for all, especially in India for various reasons. The challenge may be negotiated effectively if inclusive philosophy be infused competently in the mainstream thinking of the current the Sarva Siksha Abhiyan, the Indian version of Education for All, which is being implemented in all parts of this country. The practice of inclusive schooling may be a reality if we see that all children are attending their local regular school classroom and with appropriate community support; all schools are restructuring their curriculum, pedagogy, assessment and grouping arrangement to ensure access and success for all children in the community; all teachers are accepting responsibility for the learning ofall children, receiving continuing training, support from the mentor, from the governing body of the school, from their colleagues and from the community’ and consequently ‘exclusion’ could be arrested reasonably or blotted out entirely from the vocabulary of disability management and educational intervention. This book intends to uphold the above philosophy and wishes to present some valuable materials to the regular classroom teachers so that they find no difficulties in building their own professional tricks to invite and to provide educational intervention for the visually impaired children put in their classroom. Recognizing the diversity among the pupils and education as one of the basic human rights such classroom setting could effectively be inclusive. The book, developed from the educational model of special education, also bears new message for the students and scholars of Special Education or other practitioners and presents up to date information. The materials presented in the Six Chapters of the book are precisely limited in volume but the ideas addressed by each of them are state-of-the art and straight forward.