Karnataka State Open University is all set to conduct examinations
for specially-abled students at their houses and came up with a policy
to give extra time for each paper. This move is to encourage
differently-abled students to compete in the mainstream.
Deliberating on the application of 30-year-old Ramesh G Hegde of Sirsi, a student of first year BA, Vice-Chancellor Prof M G Krishnan has extended these special students support services. Autistic and Dyslexic students are also permitted to write examinations in the comfort zone of the homes.
Ramesh who suffers from Osteogenesis Imperfecta- a rare congenital bone disorder known as ‘brittle-bone disease’, has sensitised the examination branch of KSOU who have made special arrangements to conduct the examination at his house.
Ramesh, rendered immobile with the genetic disorder with an occurrence of one in hundred-thousand births, suffers from severe bone deformity, spinal curvature and lack of muscle tone and has been certified to be suffering from hundred per cent disability.
Prof Krishnan said though the differently-abled are receiving education, their disability is a great hurdle than other factors like gender bias, economic conditions and remoteness.
He said, “The KSOU will monitor the needs of special students as their unique requirements will have to be customised while extending educational facilities.”
He said the university is also contemplating to extend services of special educators all round the year to provide guidance and depute teachers for such students at their homes. “KSOU will adopt a humanistic approach and will not allow their talent to go waste,” he added.
Source : The New Indian Express ( 19th April 2013 )
Deliberating on the application of 30-year-old Ramesh G Hegde of Sirsi, a student of first year BA, Vice-Chancellor Prof M G Krishnan has extended these special students support services. Autistic and Dyslexic students are also permitted to write examinations in the comfort zone of the homes.
Ramesh who suffers from Osteogenesis Imperfecta- a rare congenital bone disorder known as ‘brittle-bone disease’, has sensitised the examination branch of KSOU who have made special arrangements to conduct the examination at his house.
Ramesh, rendered immobile with the genetic disorder with an occurrence of one in hundred-thousand births, suffers from severe bone deformity, spinal curvature and lack of muscle tone and has been certified to be suffering from hundred per cent disability.
Prof Krishnan said though the differently-abled are receiving education, their disability is a great hurdle than other factors like gender bias, economic conditions and remoteness.
He said, “The KSOU will monitor the needs of special students as their unique requirements will have to be customised while extending educational facilities.”
He said the university is also contemplating to extend services of special educators all round the year to provide guidance and depute teachers for such students at their homes. “KSOU will adopt a humanistic approach and will not allow their talent to go waste,” he added.
Source : The New Indian Express ( 19th April 2013 )
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