Volume : 7, Issue : 2, FEB 2021

PROVISIONS AND CHALLENGES OF VISUALLY IMPAIRED STUDENTS IN INCLUSIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LEVEL: A TEACHING-LEARNING PERSPECTIVE

PRASANTA MALLIK

Abstract

Education plays a major role in developing an individual's talents. Qualitative elementary education makes the base for future learning. Generally, visually impaired students are different from normal students. Here, the paper explores what the committee and commissions have suggested different provisions for improving teaching-learning standards for visually impaired students in India and the problems the visually impaired students face in inclusive schools' teaching-learning process. Visually impaired students face difficulties to receive knowledge because of the shortage of teaching-learning materials and Braille books, the scarcity of time, infrastructure, typewriter, recording devices, projector, talk device, and tactile maps, etc.

Keywords

PROVISION AND CHALLENGES, VISUALLY IMPAIRED CHILDREN, INCLUSIVE, ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.

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