(ANS – Chennai) –Don Bosco Egmore in association with CARE Institute of Behavioral Sciences, Chennai launched Don Bosco Remedial Education Services to help the teaching community. The training will equip teachers to identify, handle and address special needs of students within the regular classroom, thereby enabling inclusive education.

“Teachers should educate themselves more about learning disabilities and work in a way to mould each child as the best student – said the Director of School Education, S Kannappan, speaking at the launch of remedial education services by Don Bosco, in the final days of November.

Indira Krishna Kumar, principal, Don Bosco School of Excellence, also highlighted the role of parents in handling disabilities. "The instances of learning disabilities have been on the rise but the acceptance of the situation is abysmally low" she said.

Father John Alexander, Rector and correspondent of Don Bosco, pointed out that a learning disability was not a sickness but only a difficulty that could be overcome, and said also: ‘This is the pioneer school-based remedial education services for children with learning disability to overcome the difficulties in reading, writing and others and which in turn help them to improve the academic performances’.

“The school-based training programme will be helpful to avoid hardship for the parents to go for remedial education for learning disability outside the school. We are opening this out to other schools and teachers too, for the community to be benefited” he said.

CARE Institute for Behavioural Sciences will provide the course content and resource persons. Dr B S Virudhagirinathan, director of the institute will be the course director. Areas covered will include awareness, screening of children with learning disability and remedial education. There will be a crash course – three day module and a three month module.

The remedial education service, launched on the occasion of the bicentenary of the birth of Don Bosco, is being carried out by CARE Institute of Behavioural Sciences and will be opened up to teachers of other schools from January next year.

Published 07/12/2015