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Specific Learning Disabilities in India: Current Situation and the Path Ahead
1Seth Gordhandas Sunderdas Medical College and King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, Parel, Mumbai, Maharashtra. Correspondence to: Dr Sunil Karande, Professor of Pediatrics and Head of Department, In-Charge Learning Disability Clinic, Department of Pediatrics, Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital, Parel, Mumbai 400 012, Maharashtra. karandesunil@yahoo.com.
Abstract:
Students with specific learning disabilities (SpLD) need timely remedial education and provisions to continue their education within the main-stream. The Government of India has enacted the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (RPwD) Act, 2016, and legitimized SpLD as a disability, nationally. This Act mandates screening of every school student for SpLD on completion of eight years of age, setting up of resource rooms for imparting remedial education in all schools, and provisions in examinations for all afflicted students. This Act authorizes that students with SpLD get benefit of reservations in higher education seats and government jobs. To ensure that this Act is implemented effectively, all stakeholders in the field of education and health will have to collaborate to set up sufficient number of assessment clinics, create sufficient number of special educators, and develop validated screening and assessment tools for diagnosing SpLD in all the regional languages of our country.
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