Our Inclusive Education programme works with schools, educators, families and children to make education more accessible and welcoming for children with disabilities.
Opening doors to a brighter future for Lakshitha through inclusive education, where she can learn, build friendships and participate confidently in school with a hearing disability.
By building awareness, strengthening educators’ capacity and providing children with the support they need, we help create learning environments where every child can learn and participate alongside their peers.
More than 90,500 children with disabilities have benefited from APD’s Inclusive Education Programme so far, with many more to go.
Inclusive education is not only about enrolling children with disabilities in school. It also requires the right rehabilitation support, teaching practices, learning resources and accessible environments.
APD works with children, families, educators and education systems to help create conditions where children with disabilities can learn alongside their peers.
Our programme works across children, families, educators and education systems to make mainstream education more inclusive.
We support children with disabilities, their families, educators and schools, while working with local education departments to strengthen inclusive education.
This includes counselling, rehabilitation such as speech or physical therapy, surgical interventions, mobility aids, provisions for assistive equipment, intellectual development and confidence-building support. Our Community-Based Rehabilitation (CBR) instructors act as facilitators, assisting teachers to support better outcomes.
We work closely with teachers and students, offering resources, infrastructure assistance, teaching strategies and curriculum customisation for children with disabilities. A key focus is also building the capacities of educators, staff, fellow students, parents and siblings.
We help local government agencies increase enrolment and maintain the same standard of education for children with disabilities.
Established in 1973, Shradhanjali Integrated School (SIS) is a primary school on the APD campus in Bengaluru, serving more than 300 children up to Class VIII.
Accredited by the SSLC Board, the school maintains an 80:20 ratio of children with impairments and non-disabled students.
SIS focuses on holistic development through sports, arts, crafts and activity-based learning. Classrooms use technology-based tools including smart boards and audio-visual equipment.
The school also provides midday meals, books, uniforms, healthcare, rehabilitation, transportation and adaptive learning methodologies to students from low-income households.
APD works with schools and education systems to strengthen inclusive practices, build educator capacity and support children with disabilities to participate meaningfully in mainstream education.
“Being a 15-year-old who’s completely reliant on others to sit or stand is challenging, but it never deterred Dilip. After his successful rehabilitation with APD, he walks with the help of an assistive device customised for his condition and we could not have been more proud to see him pursue his studies!”Dilip’s mother, on his experience at the Shradhanjali Integrated School
Support children with disabilities to access learning, rehabilitation and inclusive school environments alongside their peers.
