Training teachers in inclusive techniques and learning materials

RAISE partners with 15 NGOs in selected districts of five states in North-East India – Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, and Tripura – and these NGOs now function as resource centres for Inclusive Education. These centres promote the access and increased participation and performance of children with disabilities in 78 government primary schools. They also train teachers, provide technical support to schools, and cooperate with education authorities. Teachers are trained in adapting or developing alternative learning materials and teaching aids, as well as in how to support a variety of disabilities, such as sensory, intellectual, learning, and multiple disabilities. RAISE also supports schools in obtaining assistive devices and other aids for children through existing government schemes.

28 teachers have been enabled to lead and replicate the inclusion process in their own institutions as well as the government system. As per May 2019, 617 teacher have been trained In addition,78 public schools have been selected and are being assessed closely accompanied to with a view of implementing minimum standards for Inclusive Education. The project also has a research component to monitor the progress of the children in inclusive schools across that is being field tested at the moment.