Good news for students with hearing impairment. The varsity is training students as interpreters to help these special freshers during admission
Good news for students with hearing impairment. The varsity is training students as interpreters to help these special freshers during admission
Delhi University is all ears. The varsity is planning to appoint a trained interpreter to help students with hearing disabilities.
Being launched for the first time, the interpreter will guide those with hearing impairment during the admission process.
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Dr Seema M Parihar, deputy dean of Students' Welfare, said, "We are expecting 20 to 25 hearing impaired students to fill admission forms this year.
We have trained about 10 students to help physically challenged freshers and out of these, one will be especially deployed for guiding the hearing impaired."
This year, the university is also planning to introduce special transport facility in North Campus for physically challenged students.
A 30-seater bus with four wheelchairs which can be used by students to commute within the campus will be provided to those with physical impairment.
The dean, Students' Welfare, will also arrange for professional counselling for physically challenged students to enable them understand their aptitude and choose the most suitable courses.
Last year, for the first time, hearing impaired students were allowed to use interpreters in class to understand lectures. The service of these interpreters was free of cost.
For the visually challenged, the university, in the last session, had introduced admission forms and pamphlets in Braille.
Able education for allDelhi University has 1,200 seats reserved for students with physical impairment. However, most of the seats remain vacant as not enough students apply. Last year, only one-third of the quota was filled.
"Seats in some of the prestigious colleges like Shri Ram College of Commerce and Hindu too go vacant. It's sad and disappointing.
We are definitely hoping a good turnout this year so that differently-abled students get equal opportunities like other students," Dr Seema Parihar, deputy dean, students' welfare, said.
Hope reservedThree per cent seats in all undergraduate and postgraduate institutions (including professional and technical institutions) in Delhi University are reserved for candidates with minimum 40 per cent physical disabilities.
Out of the three per cent, one per cent is reserved for students with low vision or blindness; one per cent for the hearing impaired and one per cent for those with loco motor disabilities and/or cerebral palsy
