Special Children Education is A Must for the Progress of A Nation

The schools for mentally challenged provide academic support and other related facilities for the mentally challenged children. A mentally challenged child has intellectual disabilities that affect his/her learning abilities with limitations in communication, expression of emotions and other restrictions associated with his/her ability of learning. Difficulty in memorizing and trouble in adapting social and problem solving skills are other areas of limitation in the general learning process of a child with mental disability. Special education is thus what is offered to the children with mental disabilities. The differently able children need individual attention and personal care, coupled with some special techniques and tools for their special learning process. The schools for mentally challenged or the special education schools, thus offer basic academic facilities for the mentally challenged children.

Meant particularly for providing all kinds of essential educational support to the special children who have their own set of learning disabilities, including mental and physical disabilities also, a special education school strives with every possible effort and dedication to help the special children in joining the mainstream. Special education is meant for the special students who have their particular disabilities in learning and also in other areas of life, such as communication, physical activities, emotions and expressions. Some of them also lack normal physical and intellectual growth. A special education school offers learning facilities to the special children with special personalized teaching aids, particular surroundings, specific teaching methods and other educational conveniences.

At a special education school each child is observed individually and according to his/her specific needs, he/she is provided with all kinds of educational and often, vocational support too, on completion of education. Non-profit making non-governmental organizations supported by charitable and administrative funds mostly looks after the operations of a special school in India. Other than educational, vocational and healthcare facilities, the special schools provide residential and financial support to the special children belonging to the underprivileged class of our society. Likewise, a school for the mentally challenged children also usually offers residential facilities to the students apart from the essential learning supports.

Basic needs of the students with mental disabilities are met sufficiently in a special school along with appropriate learning facilities to help them develop their life skills and vocational proficiency. Healthcare facilities including medical workshops at regular intervals are organized for the special children to monitor their growth by a team of professional healthcare consultants and experienced volunteers. Vocational training at special schools for the mentally challenged children helps them to become financially independent.