{"id":19159,"date":"2023-02-11T11:57:34","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T11:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=19159"},"modified":"2023-02-11T11:57:34","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T11:57:34","slug":"comprehensive-school-health-programme-to-detect-and-diagnose-different-disabilities-at-school-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/comprehensive-school-health-programme-to-detect-and-diagnose-different-disabilities-at-school-level\/","title":{"rendered":"“Comprehensive School Health Programme to Detect and Diagnose different disabilities at School Level\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"Islamabad: A consultative meeting was convened by the National Commission on the Rights of Child (NCRC) on “Comprehensive School Health Programme to Detect and Diagnose different disabilities at School Level\u201d in Islamabad. The purpose of the consultation was to engage the key officials from the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health for proper structuring of School Health Programme in Pakistan.<\/strong><\/em><\/h5>\n
Also, it aimed to create improved understanding and sufficient awareness to the health service providers in the importance of early detection and intervention, which creates a very important impact in reducing and mitigating the effects of disability on the child as late discovery leads to further complications.<\/h5>\n
The Government of Pakistan aims to increase the number of school enrolment over the years to enhance the literacy level and increase skilled workers. Many disabled children in Pakistan endure barriers in education and employment which in return exposes them to poverty and social exclusion.<\/h5>\n
In response to the education for children with learning difficulties, Ms. Afshan Tehseen \u2013 Chairperson NCRC said that many parents are unable to identify early stage in physical disability in their child which later becomes difficult to handle. An impairment detected and treated at an early stage has a much better prognosis.<\/h5>\n
Early detection and intervention will minimize or prevent the consequences of an impairment, ultimately preventing the impairment from becoming a disability. The society has limited understanding about the issues of children with disabilities, therefore they are unable to resolve the issues.<\/h5>\n
Ms. Zeb Jaffar, the Parliamentary Secretary for Education was the chief guest of the meeting and she endorsed all the inputs of the participants and said that she will forward them to be incorporated in the educational system of Pakistan. She acknowledged the work of NCRC and mentioned to work in collaboration with them in the future as well.<\/h5>\n
Dr. Rubina Fareed, ICT Member NCRC highlighted that early detection and early intervention refer to the impairment itself and not necessarily to the child\u2019s age. She said that most impairments that affect the child during the first three years of age have a serious impact on the overall child\u2019s development. She also mentioned that early detection and intervention will generally and often result in more affordable treatment and environmental adjustments at all levels, enabling the child to become independent and carry out his\/her life as normally as possible.<\/h5>\n
Mr. Zulqurnain, CEO of Potohar Mental Health Association added that disability screening laws with regarding to health and education should be constituted at all levels. There is a need to build the capacity of teachers and parents on this issue of the children with special needs.<\/h5>\n
Representatives from Institute of Dyslexia Education and Additional Studies, Special Education Center, ED Social Protection, Ministry of Health, Potohar Mental Health Association and Special Talent Exchange Programe attended the session.<\/h5>\n
The participants unanimously agreed that schools should be brought on board and screening of every child should be done at an earlier stage so that if there is any disability then that could be detected earlier to give them special care with proper treatment and requirements. They had the view that health and education shall be the utmost priority for children with special needs.<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Islamabad: A consultative meeting was convened by the National Commission on the Rights of Child (NCRC) on “Comprehensive School Health Programme to Detect and Diagnose different disabilities at School Level\u201d in Islamabad. The purpose of the consultation was to engage the key officials from the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health for proper structuring […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,85],"tags":[1785,13,3258,48,1215],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19161,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19159\/revisions\/19161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}