School laboratory: Children with visual disorders will be treated equally: DC Ammara

Says no policy or institute in place for their education; teachers to be trained

ABBOTABAD: The government will train teachers at public sector education institutes to provide equality education opportunities to children with visual impairments. This was said by Abbottabad DC Ammara Amir Khattak at the inaugural ceremony of a laboratory at a government school in Dhamtor on Tuesday.

The children who have visual disabilities should be treated equally, she said at Government Model Primary School Dhamtor. She added although there are many children who suffer from blindness or other disorders in the province, there was no separate educational facility for them.



Lagging behind

Khattak said Punjab made a policy for children with visual disabilities 35 years ago, but Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa has yet to do so.

The DC told the audience the first resource centre for children who needed such services was launched at Jalal Baba Auditorium in Abbottabad, but a syllabus could not be designed in the province. “A syllabus was taken from Punjab, but that too had flaws.”



Khattak maintained she would utilise all resources at hand to improve the standard of education in the district. Making “education for all” a reality was one of the objectives of her life, she said.

Six computers were provided to the school laboratory by COMSATS University.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 9^th, 2016.