Details of education services for students with visual impairment – Mehr News Agency | Iran and world’s news
According to the Mehr correspondent, this morning a ceremony was held on the occasion of “World White Cane Day” at the Exceptional Education Organization of the country.
Seyyed Javad Hosseini said at the ceremony: The white cane was initially intended for the movement of the blind, but gradually became a symbol for understanding the blind and then became the law of the white cane for people to know the laws of the blind. بینا شد. We have adaptation and community friendliness دار Have a human.
He continued: buses, subways, shopping malls and streets should be used in a suitable way to serve the blind and visually impaired. An exceptional organization has been formed to serve in this field.
Seyyed Javad Hosseini in this meeting pointed out that exceptional education has covered seven groups of students, including students with visual impairments. می “Recently, we added three new groups to these groups; group AutismAttention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Speech and Language Disorder were added to the previous affected groups. Currently 7,099 knowledge Learn Visually impaired are covered by education, of which 2,135 of them are in preschool, elementary, junior high, junior high and vocational technical levels. Oh you And his staff were enrolled in special schools.
He added: 4,964 students with visual impairments are also covered in a comprehensive integration in normal schools. Of course, we have 20,000 reception schools where blind and partially sighted students can study alongside ordinary students.
He stated: 597 teachers are in charge of educating students with visual impairments and 244 of them are teachers with visual impairments.
Hosseini, noting that there are 1,700 special special schools in the country, said: 25 special schools for the blind, 94 supplementary schools, 9 boarding schools and finally 466 classrooms are responsible for educating these students. Also 8 strings Conservatory also There is for students with visual impairment.
He said: 8 areas of curriculum have been considered for these students, we have the books in bold, Braille And we prepared audio. 41 bold books, 43 book titles pink And 103 titles of books in calligraphy Braille Has been compiled. We also have more than 30 titles of teacher guides for educating these loved ones.
The head of the country’s exceptional education organization said: “In the Corona era, we also put 700 titles of advanced teaching content for these loved ones in a happy atmosphere.” Also one year looking for rational software ساز We have been capacity since November های It will be added. Also this year a new capacity in the network Happy Created and created group voice interaction for students.
Hosseini said: “Our next focus is the empowerment of human resources.” Important Most An effective factor for students is a quality teacher. So we need to select and empower teachers Effort Have. This ها In addition to knowledge, they need a good communication style and language to teach. On this occasion, last year one of the programs of our adaptive school was the “Sign Language and Braille Movement”, during which we were supposed to train 5,000 teachers, guardians and officials.
He added: 8,235 members of other target groups also participated in training workshops in this field. In addition, to empower teachers, we had multiple skills training so that teachers could teach sign language and Braille to teach students when we were short of teachers.
Hosseini said: 52 teachers in the country have received training in Braille, and 50 teachers in the country have been trained in English shorthand.
The head of the Exceptional Education Organization said: “We tried to pay attention to professional technical disciplines and knowledge work, and now in eight professional technical disciplines.” Oh you And his skill is knowledge Learn We are. We also have a permanent exhibition of student achievements on the agenda.
“We have a program called the National Empowerment Participation Movement,” he added. According to this movement, students need a series of educational and non-educational equipment, and their education will be increased with this standard equipment. A total of 105 items of equipment are required for the seven groups. That 72 thousand knowledge Learn They need it. This statistic is 105 items, more than 36 items of equipment are related to the visual impairment group.
Hosseini said: in the framework of the empowerment movement program, we received 154 billion tomans of public aid and we were able to items To provide vision in the field of injuries and donate it to students, of course, this year we have considered a credit line in the budget of 50 billion Tomans.
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