Aids and equipments
| Disability |
Individuals |
Sharing within school |
Sharing amongst schools |
Instructional material |
| Orthopaedic |
Adjustable furniture, special writing, thick pen |
Adjustable furniture, provision for development of improvised |
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prosthetics |
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| Visually impaired Blind |
Braille slate and stylus Abacus, Taylor frame, mobility canes |
Brailler, Abacus, Taylor frame Cassette and talking books, maps,
recreational materials |
Braille sheets, thermoform machine, Indu Brailon maintenance services
for Brailler, embossed recreational materials |
Braille textbooks, material on cassette and talking |
| Partially sighted and low vision children |
Special adaptive equipment like hand magnifiers to be used with
spectacles, portable reading lamps |
Specially designed desks with adjustable magnifiers, white boards
in place of lack boards |
Special arrangements for producing large print materials |
Large print materials |
| Hearing impaired |
Individual hearing aids |
Voice trainer, mirror in size of 3'X6' for speech therapy, big mirrors
10'X6' in each classroom, group hearing aids, cells for hearing aids |
Audiometer, voice trainer maintenance facilities for hearing aids |
Special learning materials like flash charts, educational games,
handouts of classroom activities |
| Mentally retarded |
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Sensory apparatus and kits prepared on the lines of Maria Montessori
kits or produced by NCERT for Early Childhood Education Programme |
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Material written on a lower reading level than average. |