Dear Mr Kafle,
The organisation IARP - sounds interesting. Could you tell me
how I can contact them? You sent in three pieces of news from varied
places such as Chandigarh, Bangalore & BHU. How do you manage this?
Where do you live?
Pradeep Kapoor
On 12/19/06, Viraj Kafle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Scholars take up cause of disabled
>
> HT Correspondent
> Varanasi, December 17
>
>
> PARTICIPANTS DISCUSSED ways and means to lessen problems faced by disabled
> people in their academic and professional pursuit on the second day of the
> first
> annual conference of Indian Association of Rehabilitation Professionals
> (IARP) at Swatantrata Bhawan in BHU on Sunday.
>
> Scholars from across the country presented their research papers on the
> occasion.
>
> Vartika Srivastava, a research scholar at education faculty, BHU, delivered
> her paper on 'Education as Means of Empowerment for Girls With Disabilities'.
> She said that even though physically challenged girls comprise a significant
> number in the total disabled population, issues concerning them receive less
> attention.
>
> She said that girls with disabilities were deprived of their basic needs and
> rights like health care, education, skill training access to rehabilitative
> services and so on. "Empowerment of women has been recognised as a central
> issue in recent years and among the various tools of empowerment education can
> be considered as the most important one," she said.
>
> Rajiv Ranjan, a lecturer of special education, presented a paper on 'The
> Personality Profile of Children With Learning Disability'. He said that under
> current
> circumstances, there was a need to initiate systematic nationwide attempt to
> tap the potential of the learning disability children and utilise their
> resources
> for the welfare of the state.
>
> Rajesh Kumar, an education faculty student in BHU, talked about the 'Aspects
> of Rehabilitation: Visual Impairment'. He discussed in detail the social,
> educational,
> medical, psychological and economic rehabilitation of visually challenged
> people.
>
> Mukesh Narayan of Jerevan Jyoti School for the Blind dwelt on 'Approach to
> Education of Deaf-Blind Children in Uttar Pradesh'. He said that parents could
> be effective educators and could deal with their children confidently in the
> absence of professionals.
>
> General secretary of IARP and director of Integrated Institu
>
> http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/5922_1870875,0015002500030002.htm
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