Change attitude towards children with disabilities
Speakers at a programme yesterday called on all to change their attitude towards the mentally and physically-challenged children and work together to bring them to the mainstream society.
School for Gifted Children (SGC) organised the programme to mark its 5th anniversary at Biam auditorium in the city where a number of artworks drawn by the children were also exhibited.
Speaking as the chief guest, National Prof Dr MR Khan stressed the need to strengthen the special efforts of various organisations and training centres trying to shape the lives of the children with disabilities.
“If all the initiatives are taken in a collective way, the government would also come forward effectively to help these children,” he added.
Dr Khan called on the well-off class of the society to extend their helping hands so that the organisations can spread their initiatives of helping the handicapped and autistic children across the country.
He underlined the importance of becoming more preventive in these cases, rather than just trying to get relieved of the problems, saying, “In these cases, pre- and post-birth periods should be handled carefully by the parents which might lessen the increasing births of autistic children.”
Founder of Centre of Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (CRP) Valerie Taylor said, "Being more privileged, we have so many things to learn from these children, including how they are trying to learn and demonstrating the lessons what they have learned."
Lauding the initiative to enrol a total of six children to regular education institutions from SGC, she said, “As it is a huge task to take the responsibilities of these special children, all of us should take part in this noble and necessary purpose.”
Head of Child Neurology department at BSMMU Prof Mizanur Rahman, CEO of HSBC Bangladesh Sanjay Prakash, British Standard School Vice Principal Badrun Nawazish and SGC Director Marufa Hossain also spoke at the programme.
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