DISABILITY A CURSE

Another fine day in my life, uneasy hectic schedule in college but another good dawn said me I could be aside my cool pals today. A guy entered my classroom and sat amidst our gaggle, felt as if I could add one more name to my friend’s list. A Quaker beside me asked the new comer his name, he was quite unaware and took his hand near his ears and signaled something, we could not get him at the first glance but within a blitz we realized that this young lad was hearing and speech impaired (it’s not courtesy to address such people as deaf and dumb). We were amazed and at the same time felt very bad ,the day’s discussion went on with the same topic .How could this boy cope up with the tough engineering syllabus ran around in everyone’s mind.

Hope the first day in college would have really been a nightmare to him, his only way of communication was writing and a different sort of introduction took place with the pen and papers. He said (wrote…) that he did his diploma in Mysore in a college for the physically disabled persons. During the lunch break I went up to him and conversed with the sign language which the hearing impaired persons generally used (great that I had learnt a little bit of it in my past), I could see a glint of smile on his face. But later I could make out that this form of communication was obsolete as it used both the hands or it is used for capital letters. Later many of us managed to learn the common sign language and communication became much better than before. Was this boy right in joining in such a curriculum? Won’t he feel that he is being discriminated during lectures and discussions?

During my schooling I had a vision impaired boy as my class mate. This guy was really talented and I hope he never struggled in studies. He was par excellence in this aspect and even topped in some of the subjects. I would account this to shear hard work and he had a lot of other talents too. How do we expect such persons to pursue professional education? Hope there are no special professional colleges for the differently abled persons?
How about the fate of the bright disabled students?

One Response to “DISABILITY A CURSE”

1. annian says:

   July 22, 2005 at 10:43 pm

   these challenged people who leads their life in different world sure will be gifted with a special talent their friends can help these challing hero’s to glow in their life,if he succeed in their proffesional edu then it will be a great achievement for their friends…………..