摘要:The main challenges for education of disabled learners are identifying and serving these
learners in India and raising the quality of education for them. While inclusion of children with
disabilities into mainstream education has been challenging due to various policy constraints and gaps
in implementation, the paper discusses how National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS), India has
designed various educational programmes to achieve the three important principles of education
policy viz., access, equity and quality. Apart from it’s in-built flexibilities offered by NIOS, wherein
learners are provided with due flexibilities and opportunities to learn at their own pace and place to
every group of learners through use of Media and ICT support both in academic and evaluation
system, NIOS has also developed mechanism of providing learning material in Indian Sign Language
at secondary level(10th class) and orienting parents and learners through Indian Sign language
dictionary. The paper also raises the debate of importance of advocacy and collaboration with various
deaf enabled organisation to promote the education of deaf and hard-of-hearing learners in the
country.
关键词:Disability; Open Schooling; NIOS; Deaf; ISL; ODL; Technology