Learning Disabled and Their Education in India

Abstract

The issue of disability reveals an alarming concern of inclusive education and exclusion process in ongoing development. Disability and particularly learning disability exclude a sizeable population of children out of school, increase dropout and a challenge for universalisation of education and development of any society. A rough indication gives high prevalence about 10%; however, actual estimation seems very difficult to estimate owing to absence of concept and separation with other forms of disability. This paper is divided into three parts. First part deals about the concept of learning disability and its disguise nature within disability; thus, its nature, prevalence, identification and spread in India need to examine. Second part is focused on analyses, the policy and different interventions to deal with challenges, while third part deals with the education system and the educational statuses of these learning disables.