Abstract: India is one of the countries to make education a fundamental right of children ,when the Act of making education a fundamental right between age 6-14 has been implemented on 1st April 2010.The Act also facilitates education of persons with disabilities until 18 years of age by a separate legislation. Kerala, the first state with complete literacy deserves special attention in the education as well as employment levels of disabled children. The present study focus on such issues based on a representative sample, the result of which helps to generalize the Kerala experience. Social inclusion of differently abled students and their educational attainments has been analyzed by conducting the case study of School for the Blind, Keezhmad, Aluva which is a pioneer in the field of special schools in Kerala. Visually impaired and both visually as well as mentally challenged were subjected to the survey. The study also take into account of the financial as well as parental & orphan status of students along with assessing the academic and non academic abilities of disabled students. Surely, the study leads to a global campaign of education for disabled, leading to special care for the welfare of socially excluded sections of the society.
Keywords: separate legislation, Social inclusion.
Title: Social Inclusion of Differently Abled Students and Their Educational Attainments: A Case Study of Visually Impaired
Author: Dr. SREEJA. S.
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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