Children with Special Needs

The NPE, 1986 has duly realized that separate education for the disabled in residential schools is psyhologically, socially, emotionally and educationally unsecured. Moreover it states that the educational objective must be adherence to integrate the physically and mentally handicapped with social environment to make them able to encounter day-to-day problmes with courage and confidence. The concept of integrated education for children with special needs is a recent origin in place of the term 'exceptional', 'handicapped' and 'disabled' which has been incorporated in different courses with an enthsiastic sprit to gear the plans and programmes among the teachers of our country. This has also prompted innovative scopes in the execution and success of 'Education For All" and Health cover by all to provide equal opportunity to the neglected childern of our society. The author has prepared this Unique Volume with a view to satisfy the crying need of M.A. (Edn.) B.Ed and M.Ed students of different Indian Universitites. Besides, the educationists, psychologists, teachers, parents, doctor and administrators in their respective fields will feel very easy while dealing with the disabled children to cope with main stream of the present society. The present book consists of the content areas such as Children with special needs, Concept of Integrated education, Integrating the hearing impaired, Integrating the visually impaired, integrating the orthopeadically handicapped, integrating the educable mentally regaded, Integrating the learning disabled....