There are an estimated three million children with disabilities in India, many of whom are marginalised by poverty, gender, disability and caste. Of the identified CWD in India, 34% are out of school, that’s nearly a million children between ages 6-14.
The need to support CWD in classrooms has been overlooked, and under-funded. Students with disabilities, or marked deficits, represent a growing population in any classroom due to the failures in early intervention support, especially in low-income communities. Failure to respond to this need will continue to have negative consequences on CWD’s academic and life outcomes.
The Challenge
Faced with the policy thrust towards inclusion, schools struggle with understanding how to support children with disability and implementing inclusive practices successfully. We support inclusion capacity-building with resources that help you understand the three key questions:
What is inclusion?
How inclusive is your school?
What can you do to make your school more inclusive?
1. Increase Awareness
We leverage our network to increase and spread the awareness level of inclusive education and the need for it. Our Gati team works across the year to engage with principals, school owners and school leaders across the country to increase awareness about what inclusion is, and why is it important. Further, we share an easy to adopt inclusion plan to help schools commit and work towards being more inclusive.
We create awareness through:
Awareness Campaigns
Activation Workshops for Schools
2. Conduct School Needs Assessments
The Gati team offers a Needs Assessment tool to schools to review the school’s level and quality of inclusion practice. Gati programme team members conduct this Needs Assessment through data collection, stakeholder interviews and school leadership meetings. Schools that undergo the Gati Assessment will have better understand their inclusive needs against national benchmarks of performance.
3. Provide In-School Support
Gati works in collaboration with its core group members to provide support schools towards becoming inclusive. We are working towards providing support across the following key areas:
Curriculum & Pedagogy
Professional Development of Teachers
Classroom Infrastructure
Classroom Behaviour Management
The Challenge
Faced with the policy thrust towards inclusion, schools struggle with understanding how to support children with disability and implementing inclusive practices successfully. We support inclusion capacity-building with resources that help you understand the three key questions:
What is inclusion?
How inclusive is your school?
What can you do to make your school more inclusive?
1. Increase Awareness
We leverage our network to increase and spread the awareness level of inclusive education and the need for it. Our Gati team works across the year to engage with principals, school owners and school leaders across the country to increase awareness about what inclusion is, and why is it important. Further, we share an easy to adopt inclusion plan to help schools commit and work towards being more inclusive.
We create awareness through:
Awareness Campaigns
Activation Workshops for Schools
2. Conduct School Needs Assessments
The Gati team offers a Needs Assessment tool to schools to review the school’s level and quality of inclusion practice. Gati programme team members conduct this Needs Assessment through data collection, stakeholder interviews and school leadership meetings. Schools that undergo the Gati Assessment will have better understand their inclusive needs against national benchmarks of performance.
3. Provide In-School Support
Gati works in collaboration with its core group members to provide support schools towards becoming inclusive. We are working towards providing support across the following key areas:
Curriculum & Pedagogy
Professional Development of Teachers
Classroom Infrastructure
Classroom Behaviour Management
CURRENT PARTNERS
Sol’s ARC
Resource Partner
Ummeed Child Development Centre
Resource Partner
Inspirium Holistic Care
Resource Partner
Gateway School
Resource Partner
We have identified resources that can directly work for school stakeholders: teachers, school leaders, parents, students. Atma's goal is to facilitate an ecosystem where more schools can access high-quality resources.