GiftAbled Integrated &Inclusive Education
Education for Children with Disabilities
GiftAbled inclusive and Integrated Education Programme is to enable every child with disability to exercise their right through access to appropriate and mainstream education.
GiftAbled Approach
The approach will be to adapt best practices to reach out to all children in schools through building the capacities of teachers to be multi-abled with wide range of disabilities along with non-disabled children.
An integrated classroom is a setting where students with disabilities learn alongside peers without disabilities. Inclusion is the actual merging ofspecial education and regular education with the belief that all children are different, will learn differently, and should have full access to the same curriculum.
Project Objectives
1.To provide an opportunity for children with disability to study and be a part of the society through integrated and inclusive education.
2.To ensure retention of existing disabled students and to improve enrolment of out of school disabled children.
3. To enhance the capacities of teachers to teach children with disabilities through training and necessary support.
4.To create awareness in the parent groups, communities on the importance of their participation in their child’s education.
5. To introduce online learning for children with mobility issues through partners and e-volunteers.
6.To build a strong and sustainable relationship with the government and other local institutions for infrastructural requirements and development schemes.
7.To implement best practices from time-time to create higher impact in the system.
Project Tactile Library
Tactile Library
Tactile books represent a set of graphics, figures and designs that a visually impaired student can learn from easily by feeling. Hence, it is important to set up libraries with various books for students to learn from.We aim to reach such books to the rural parts of India by encouraging this advancement in learning. This will serve thousands of children and adults to understand the world around them better.
Our organisation started setting up Tactile Libraries last year, and the effort has continued and spread. We have set up around 15-20 tactile libraries so far across Karnataka. This effort benefited over 800-1000 visually Impaired learners.
Our Working Philosophy
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- School reform is a process, not an event. Therefore it takes time, patience and diligence on the part of all stakeholders
- Change involves mutual adaptation. Hence keeping communication channels open to ensure frequent and open minded dialogues and discussions with all concerned is important.
- Change involves mutual adaptation. Hence keeping communication channels open to ensure frequent and open minded dialogues and discussions with all concerned is important.
- Change is not likely to go forward precisely as planned. Periodic reflections and mid-course corrective measures will be required.