History of Special Education in Indo-Pak
In the Indo–Pak subcontinent the special needs education history for children and adults dates back to the British period. In 1906 a school for visually impaired children and adults was established in Lahore to cater for their educational and vocational needs. In 1923 another school in Karachi, Ida Rio, was set up for hearing impaired children.
The regular school system generally excluded children and adults with disabilities, because the administration of the schools and teachers did not knew how to teach the children with disabilities according to their unique learning needs. The tolerance and expertise needed to teach the disabled children was lacking in schools. A two way system of education was …show more content…
In 1959, 12 years after independence a report of the National Commission on Education was the first attempt from government to endorse education of children with special needs. The report recommended that specialized training should be provided to teachers of children with disabilities in their respected fields. It also recommended to provide vocational training to mentally challenged children and adults as none of the sector, public or private was working in this …show more content…
Other professionals like doctors, therapists and psychologists must join hands with the educators to rehabilitate the children with special needs. ii. The vocational education should be combined with general education so that the disabled children be trained to earn their own living. iii. As government has limited resources it was suggested to work closely with the society to give care and education to special children. iv. Recommendations were made to benefit from the partnership between private philanthropist organizations and government to overcome the resources limitations. To care for different types of disabilities different specific agencies should be set up.
v. Government was suggested to fund specialized trainings from abroad to teachers so that they can serve in the institutes for disabled. Initially there should be at least two teacher training institute, one teacher training center for teaching the deaf and the other teacher training center for teaching the blinds.
The Education Policy
In the Indo–Pak subcontinent the special needs education history for children and adults dates back to the British period. In 1906 a school for visually impaired children and adults was established in Lahore to cater for their educational and vocational needs. In 1923 another school in Karachi, Ida Rio, was set up for hearing impaired children.
The regular school system generally excluded children and adults with disabilities, because the administration of the schools and teachers did not knew how to teach the children with disabilities according to their unique learning needs. The tolerance and expertise needed to teach the disabled children was lacking in schools. A two way system of education was …show more content…
In 1959, 12 years after independence a report of the National Commission on Education was the first attempt from government to endorse education of children with special needs. The report recommended that specialized training should be provided to teachers of children with disabilities in their respected fields. It also recommended to provide vocational training to mentally challenged children and adults as none of the sector, public or private was working in this …show more content…
Other professionals like doctors, therapists and psychologists must join hands with the educators to rehabilitate the children with special needs. ii. The vocational education should be combined with general education so that the disabled children be trained to earn their own living. iii. As government has limited resources it was suggested to work closely with the society to give care and education to special children. iv. Recommendations were made to benefit from the partnership between private philanthropist organizations and government to overcome the resources limitations. To care for different types of disabilities different specific agencies should be set up.
v. Government was suggested to fund specialized trainings from abroad to teachers so that they can serve in the institutes for disabled. Initially there should be at least two teacher training institute, one teacher training center for teaching the deaf and the other teacher training center for teaching the blinds.
The Education Policy