PERSPECTIVE OF VISUALLY CHALLENGED CHILDREN TOWARDS USE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT)

Our universe is so beautiful with different cultures, but only a few are devoid of enjoying or experiencing such beauty because of their innate inability to see things around them. Education is one the fundamental rights and there is an international commitment to ensure that every child should receive basic education of good quality. But sufficient attention is not given to some marginalized groups of children with visually impaired in some of the underdeveloped nations. An attempt is being made to study the perspectives of visually challenged children towards the use of ICT in Amravati Division of Maharashtra. The aim of this paper was to examine present curriculum primary education and compare the perspective of visually challenged children towards the use of ICT in the education. Survey method was adopted and the data were analysed by using inferential statistics. The study reveals that, there is significant mean difference between the aspiration of visually challenged boys and girls towards the dimensions of ICT like ICT infrastructure and technical support and there is no significant mean difference between the aspiration of visually challenged boys and girls towards the dimension like ICT training and there are great extent of difficulties for the visually challenged children in using ICT enabled services.Our universe is so beautiful with different cultures, but only a few are devoid of enjoying or experiencing such beauty because of their innate inability to see things around them. Education is one the fundamental rights and there is an international commitment to ensure that every child should receive basic education of good quality. But sufficient attention is not given to some marginalized groups of children with visually impaired in some of the underdeveloped nations. An attempt is being made to study the perspectives of visually challenged children towards the use of ICT in Amravati Division of Maharashtra. The aim of this paper was to examine present curriculum primary education and compare the perspective of visually challenged children towards the use of ICT in the education. Survey method was adopted and the data were analysed by using inferential statistics. The study reveals that, there is significant mean difference between the aspiration of visually challenged boys and girls towards the dimensions of ICT like ICT infrastructure and technical support and there is no significant mean difference between the aspiration of visually challenged boys and girls towards the dimension like ICT training and there are great extent of difficulties for the visually challenged children in using ICT enabled services.