Disabled students get ICT training module

digital empowerment of differently-abled students in Kerala state, IT@School has come out with an ICT training module for the special category of students, The Times of India says.

Earlier, the project had successfully imparted ICT training to all visually challenged teachers in the state using the free software - Orca - and fetched special appreciation from the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) in India.

The training programme for differently-abled students has been developed using the free software application, GCompris. A total of 119 activities are incorporated under eight sections in the training module. Using this software, it is possible to assign specific topics in accordance with the physical and psychological conditions of individual students. The module comprises various educational activities enabling the student to learn by seeing, hearing, touching and reading.

The learning process has been designed in such a way as to facilitate psychological growth for students playing different games, IBN Live reports. The narrations and letters have been made available in Malayalam. The module, which encourages reading, calculations, puzzles, creation of maps, etc, would be used in training teachers from schools for differentially-abled students

The project would also extend these resources to the MHRD so that similar students of other states also can benefit. The Malappuram team of IT@School has developed the training programme's innovative module.