We all are special in one way or the other; remember when
you were a kid when you were a part of that fairy tale. Remember the time when
you tried to tweak the fairy tales as per your fantasies. With the passage of
time, the reality of the world took over and made you another ordinary person
running in the rat race to achieve the goals set by the marketing forces. You
started comparing yourself with others in terms of status and success.
Then a phase came when you started behaving like a perfect human robot and
society accepted you as a successful person in life. This story holds true for
the maximum number of people.
Why We Cannot Treat Ignorance as Special Bliss
Think about the easiest and the happiest moment of your
life, it was the time when you were acting like a kid and feeling happy like an
innocent kid. The same state of the bliss can be achieved in the life of special
girl kids. Special kids are normal in many ways apart from the fact that
sometimes they refuse to grow old under the pressure of society. Their
intellectual faculty and other value systems deceive them and leave them in a
time zone where the growth of their mental age slows down or become stagnant to
a particular age group. As a grownup individual, sometimes, you want to drag
yourself back to the same good old days. This is the time when you become a kid
all over again. Any teacher or an organization, taking care of the educational
and recreational needs of a special girl child should transform herself to that
particular state of the mind. On a psychological level, they should start the
journey from that point forward and touch new horizons of the worldly wisdom
under the purview of this innocence state of the mind.
Step into Their Shoes before Educating Them
As a standard rule, most of the teachers are well versed in
taking care of the needs of normal kids. They are coming up with new ways to
speed up the needs of the students. This approach can backfire when we deal
with students with special needs. It can serve as a dampener of the spirits for
them and force them into the territory of the inferiority complex. Organizations
like ATULYA (a good school in Rohini Delhi) are working on a scientific and emotional approach, where they tone
down their intellect levels to the needs of special children and start a fresh
journey from their point of view. Here an instructor feels a catharsis with the
kid, makes a note about her information levels, check her worldview, and
identify some familiar objects that can be used as a symbol of the storytelling.
After doing all the hard work, the instructor starts the process of teaching
and stays on the same page with the kid. It can also be considered as a
personalized or customized solution designed for every special kid in
accordance with her information level and ignorance levels.

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