Inclusive Education: Role of Teachers, Parents and Community

The inclusion of disabled children in the normal school curriculum is yet to be considered in our country. Significant progress has been made in many countries like USA, UK towards inclusion. According UN, 600 million people in the world have significant disability. Hence, the size of population of disabled person is quite significant and have it is necessary that such persons should be main streamed with the society so that they also contribute to the society. Out of 12 million disabled 4.3 million falls in 4–6 years age group. Besides recognition of the need for educational services to the disabled as a human rights: the Ramamurthy Committee for the review of NPE’86 and Article 45 below are two important recommendations made by the various commissions reports for providing education to the children with special needs.

The Government will consult with all stakeholders including representatives from Disability Right Activist groups, NGOs, parent groups and others, in an attempt to develop a consensus on the understanding of the concept of inclusive education and achieving it with the Indian context. Inclusion is an issue relevant to everyone in the society especially special class teacher, the school manager, the staff and local authorities, parents and their roles are discussed.