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Adapting teaching material for inclusive education

Adapting teaching material for inclusive education. Dr. Tamru E. Belay Adaptive Technology Centre for the Blind (ATCB), Ethiopia. Beyond rhetoric. Ethiopian government enacted an inclusive education policy in 2006. Yet institutionalisation of blind children continues.

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Adapting teaching material for inclusive education

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  1. Adapting teaching material for inclusive education Dr. Tamru E. Belay Adaptive Technology Centre for the Blind (ATCB), Ethiopia

  2. Beyond rhetoric • Ethiopian government enacted an inclusive education policy in 2006. • Yet institutionalisation of blind children continues. • Inadequacy of Braille services leads to high drop out rates • Little of no awareness among teachers about the intellectual capacity of blind people.

  3. Adaptive Technology Centre for the Blind (ATCB) • ATCB intervened by supplying Braille to blind students in secondary schools from 2002. • ATCB introduced Ethiopic Braille enabling students to access textbooks in the national language of Amharic and a range of regional languages.

  4. What are the fruits of this intervention? • Independence in learning • Completing assignments on time • Good results • Gradual reduction of teachers’ bias

  5. Grade 10 student, Menelik Secondary School

  6. Conclusion • Improved quality of teaching-learning process by training teachers in identifying and assessing diverse needs among learners, and responding to these needs; • Increasing social interaction • More equal access to and participation in education of blind learners • Improved classroom and school management; • Lower repetition and dropout rates, and consequently, reduced social problems; • Increased universal primary education completion rates; • Reduced poverty among families • Efficient usage of the existing education resources;

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