INNOVATIVE PRACTICES IN THE FIELD OF MENTALLY SPECIAL SCHOOL CHILDRENS AND ROLE OF PARENTS

All the children with special needs must be enrolled in primary schools. After the assessment of their disabilities by a team of a doctor, a psychologist, and a special educator, in schools, the child will be placed in appropriate educational settings. Children with mild and moderate disabilities of any kind may be integrated in normal schools, severe in special schools/ remedial schools, drop outs who have problems in availing benefits of normal schools can join open schools. All the children with learning disabilities alone are first managed in the normal schools. Open and special schools also offer vocational courses also for children with disabilities. The child with mental retardation has special needs in addition to the regular needs of all children, and parents can find themselves over whelmed by various medical, care giving, financial and educational responsibilities. Government of India, “The National Policy on Mental Handicap”, has emphasized the importance of homebased care with parents as partners in the care process. The present paper focused on the study of teaching strategies and learning materials for mentally retired children with prime objectives are (i) To understand importance and innovative best practices for mentally special school children's (ii) To discuss the role of teacher in the mentally special school children's.