Reading Clinic set up for students with learning disabilities
Lahore: 14 September: School dropouts may take a deep breath of comfort and relief, as the Foundation for Rehabilitation and Education of Slow Children (FRESH) has opened the first of its reading clinics for persons with reading and writing disabilities in Pakistan. Pakistan is one of the countries with the highest school dropout rate, 51 percent, especially at the primary level. FRESH Chairwoman Ashba Kamran said the Reading Clinic would hold afternoon classes for persons, especially children, with learning disabilities. She said the concept of afternoon classes was common in the West where children with learning disabilities were taught with student-centred, and not teacher-focused, approach. She said the reading clinic, under the aegis of FRESH, would act like a remedial programme for children with learning disabilities. FRESH has hired subject specialists for the clinic. She herself was a certified tutor for Audioblox: a teaching method that helps enhance the learning capacity and concentration among persons with learning disabilities. It may be noted that FRESH was already working on education and rehabilitation of persons with learning disabilities. Persons with special education needs (SENs) were provided with education and rehabilitated by locating jobs for them in leading international food and clothe chains. So far, hundreds of children have successfully secured good positions in multinational companies after being educated and trained at the institute. Daily Times.
