In front of our Sandnya Srushti campus there is IRA international School for normal children. The school is up to 12th Standered and has CBSC syllabus. On 7th Feb I received a message that IRA wish to send 85 students of 5th Standered to our campus to learn about our activity. We of course confirmed the visit. Since than I was thinking about how to communicate with these very young friends? We would certainly take them around the campus to show the practical aspect of our work which we always do with our all visitors. I was very apprehensive about telling them the technical part of mental disability. And then it struck me that we can take few integrated sorts events that would actually make them realize the limitations of our mentally challenged students.
On 8th of Feb' as scheduled 85 students of 5th stn. along with 3 teachers reported at the time of our morning prayer. After prayer, they were split in to 3 groups each lead with one of our special educator and taken around the campus. After this we got few IRA students and along with our students two teams were formed. They played football, passing the batten, passing the ball and putting the ball in the basket. The whole activity was worth seeing. All IRA students were very coperative and enthusiastic. In the end these IRA students assembled in our first floor hall. There was a small session conducted by secretary of SSS to make the visitors understand the condition called as mental disability.
By: Navin Deshpande
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