Volume 19 No 11 (2021)
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DIFFICULTIES FACED BY DIFFERENTLY ABLED CHILDREN IN THEIR CLASSROOMS AT SECONDARY LEVEL
Dr. Suresh Kumar K
Abstract
The entire process of education is worthless if it is not as per the consideration of the learner as an individual and as a part of a big society. The constitution of India guarantees free and compulsory education to children of every section. It guarantees every child the right to education of comparable quality. The differently abled children are facing many difficulties in their classrooms. The objective of the study was to study the difficulties faced by differently abled children in the classrooms. Observation of the classes and semi-structured interviews with resource teachers were used as the major techniques in this study. The differently abled children were always struggling with the regular teachers' classes when the resource teacher is absent from the class. It is observed that the differently abled children faced many difficulties to attend the classes. Most of them were not interested in attending the classes. But the resource teachers in the class helped them in many ways. The differently abled children faced difficulties in following the contents of the curriculum. But they enjoyed using various types of technology in their classrooms. Group activities were more beneficial and interesting to such children and they enabled them to reduce the difficulties in the classroom. Insufficient adapted facilities in the classroom, lack of support from various stakeholders, improper learning strategies, lack of training for the teachers, the problem of curriculum transaction, and nonavailability of resource teachers all affected adversely the differently abled children in their classroom. It needs time to reconstruct the curriculum according to the needs and interests of the differently abled children.
Keywords
Differently abled children, Inclusive Education
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