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Inclusive education of intellectual disability children in India is in its cradle. There are comprehensive alignments of barriers that may be encountered in the effort to implement inclusive education of disability students. In this article, we point out the challenges and barriers for sightless students in accessing education like: familial segregation, social inclusion, hiring separate special educator in every school, access to basic Resources-Braille books, audio textual, emboss map-charts, mobility friendly infrastructure, educational aids, printing notes, peer support and positive upbringing surroundings etc. For this purpose, we visit one special school and two inclusive mainstream school’s in rural districts of West Bengal, Hooghly with the application of Phenomenological inquiry to understand theoretically the daily lived experiences, and use of mixed methods research like focus group discussions including both structured and face-to- face interviews, participant observation in order to collect data with a 100 sample about the barriers associated with inclusive education for visually challenged students. The study identifies public awareness programmes to curb social misconceptions about orthodox stigmatized identity of disabled children, which serve as liaisons between the school, home, and community. |
