Inclusive Education for persons with disabilities for sustainable development in Pakistan

Recent research on mainstreaming persons with disabilities in Pakistan identifies multiple issues, common to other developing countries like access to education, limited provision of facilities, low attendance, and lack of... [ view full abstract ]

Recent research on mainstreaming persons with disabilities in Pakistan identifies multiple issues, common to other developing countries like access to education, limited provision of facilities, low attendance, and lack of motivation, poor standards, and high dropout rates. The findings reflect that mainstreaming in education from rights based perspective can be a possible solution to the issue. However, in Pakistan; children with disabilities are at a two-fold disadvantage when it comes to education. First, the country’s heavily strained education sector already excludes as many as 25 million children who are not attending school and fewer than half of those who do attend school complete primary education. Children with disabilities are more likely to stay out of school and for those who do attend school, the quality of education is questionable. The research proposes changes like improving the physical environment and enhancing teachers training

Through the Quick-Fire talk – we hope to engage with the group who either have similar experiences or have similar programmes in their countries and then develop some basic intervention ideas to improve the existing situation.