Title of practice: Guidelines for the Development of e-Content for Children with Disabilities
Author/developer: Constituted by the Ministry of Education Government of India
Language: English
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A comprehensive initiative, PM eVIDYA was launched on 17th May 2020,with the aim to unify all efforts related to digital/online/on-air education. The programme envisages development of special e-content for visually and hearing impaired students, along with extensive use of radio, community radio and podcasts and the uploading of QR coded energized digital textbooks. In pursuance of this vision for providing accessible e-content to Divyang students, Department of School Education and Literacy of Ministry of Education (MoE) constituted a Working Group with the specific goal of developing teaching-learning e-content for Children with Special Needs. The Working group in its meeting held on August 20, 2020 constituted three sub-committees. The recommendations given in this document have emerged after detailed deliberations amongst members of the sub-committee for the development of guidelines for developing e-content for Children with Special Needs, and need based additional members co-opted during the course of study. The committee has restricted its recommendations for developing e-content for Children with Disabilities as specified under the Rights of Persons with Disability (RPwD) Act 2016.
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