Differently-abled kids were seen operating laptops on the premises of Deepshika, Institute for Child Development and Mental Health on Tuesday. In the era of digitalisation and globalisation computer literacy has become must for every kid.
To endorse all round development of differently abled children the Department of Empowerment of person with Disabilities, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India had distributed 12 laptops for the children with mild to moderate disabilities (Intellectual) from Jharkhand.
“I will be able to teach my child now in a better way. He too will be able to work on the laptop and understand the basic concept of computer,” said, mother of Shobit Munda, a differently-abled child.
“To ensure full development of society, we must focus on every individual. The government through its various programmes and policies provide constant help to the people,” said, Director, Social Welfare, R P Singh.
The laptop was given to the differently abled children in the presence of several staff members and there respective parents at the Deepshika, Institute for Child Development and Mental Health premises on Tuesday.
“Our basic motto is to empower these kids and try to bring them in the mainstream. This is an era of technology and computer literacy is must now a days for children. Through this vision and with the help of certain scheme of Government of India, we all are able to provide laptop to these children,” said, Director, Deepshikha Institute for Child Development and Mental Health Alka Nizamie.
The scheme covers mild to moderate disabilities kids from the schedule caste and scheduled tribes community. In the first phase of programme the 7 kids were provided laptops from 3 different districts of Jharkhand. Differently abled children from Ranchi, Dhanbad and Ramgarh received the laptops from the concerned authorities.
Computer Assisted instruction (CAI) is the software which is designed to guide the differently abled kids and help them to operate the laptop. The software is designed by National Institute for Mentally Handicapped (NIMH). The software is user friendly and convenient to use.
“Our scheme covers mild to moderate disabilities children and who all are between the age group 15-18 years, this was the 1 phase of programme and next year our organization will cover more children. Our aim is to reach maximum kids and avail them with the benefits of this service”, said, Officer-in-charge, NIMH.
To avail the benefits of this government schemes the application should be provided by the respective institute to the National Institute of for the Mentally Handicapped (NIHM).