To allow students with special physical needs to read a book along with regular students in a classroom, the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) unveiled a series of 40 booklets on Friday. The council will study the impact of these books to determine if the technology used in these booklets can be transferred to textbooks so that all students can read from the same book and in the same classrooms.
Till now, students with physical and other limitations used to have different study materials as well as separate classrooms.
The new series has 40 illustrated story booklets covering five themes — relationships, birds-animals, musical instruments, games and toys and food —and four reading levels, aimed at helping children in learning at the foundation level.
The project has been started on a pilot basis and keeps all the principles of universal design for learning in mind.
Read more on this in the report of Manash Gohain published in Times of India...
