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We must identify their talents and skills and trigger that. All they need is the right way of teaching and training. They do have different ways of learning and working. I have also worked as scribe for children who have amazing IQ, but due to visual impairment, they find difficulty in writing. It was a three-month workshop, aiming to assist them improving and maintaining their health, stimulating their focus.

In 2014, my mother and I had trained around 200 Children with Hearing Difficulties in Yoga. Likewise, to work with people who have hearing and other difficulties, I learnt sign language and Braille. Similarly, when we visit states of India, we try to learn regional languages. When we go to France, we learn French to communicate with people there. They are not taken included in the mainstream schools, are confined to special schools and in later phase they aren’t employed. While working with such people, I understood the pain their parents go through due to being secluded and neglected. He suffers from down syndrome, yet now he is known as an entrepreneur. Under one such mission in Oman, we trained a child in making various products like candles, soaps, chocolate bouquets, hand printed apparels, greeting cards and many more and helped setting up his own shop selling his very own products. Under Prakramika Institute, our main motive is to empower them and make them independent entrepreneurs. With their hard work and persistence, they have emerged as school toppers and are now in pursuit of completing their graduation. I have trained them in various Higher Secondary Class Subjects-Business Studies, Information Technology, Mass Communication, Painting, Accountancy, Economics and provided training in essential life skills since 2016.

I have worked with people with capabilities coming from different spectrums, namely, autism, dyslexia, dyscalculia, down-syndrome, cerebral palsy, visual impairment, hearing impairment, etc… I have worked on training them in academics and vocational skills. Then why do we segment them as special needs, differently abled? We are all different and special.

They are all people with some capability. Why don’t we call them simply as maestros or beauty pageants? We have come across people who are visually/hearing impaired emerging as great keyboard players and Divers. Knowing our health issues is good as we must treat them for a better and healthy life. Would we accept if the world calls us as person with cancer/HIV? We all face deterioration in our eyes and ears as we age. But they are not predominantly identified through their diseases as person with thyroid or a person with diabetics. Why do we label people who can’t study, as slow learners? Why do we brand a person with bundle of energy as hyperactive? Many have health issues like diabetes, thyroid, high blood pressure. Then why do we identify people with their disabilities. God has designed the world to be diverse.

We create our identity and expect to be known and recognized by our capabilities. We all have different ways of doing things and look at life from different vision. Some of us excel in academics while some emerge as sports men. Some can enthrall us by their singing, but some are allergic to sound. While some of us possess talent in literature, some excel in arts. But if we judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it’s stupid.”Įach of us are capable in some way or the other. To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2020 International Disability Capability Day 2020

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