A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF DYSCALCULIA OF DISABLED STUDENTS OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS

Abstract

Education plays an important role in the life and welfare of a nation. For differently-abled children, schools are the major source which develop the person in them, and create skills to live independently in the society. According to CABE report, handicapped children were supposed to go to special schools only when the nature and extent of their defects were large enough and made this important. The Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) which suggests Education for All was launched in 2000, and it mandated equal education for children with disabilities no matter the sort or severity of incapacity. The major objective of this study is this, “To find out difference in Dyscalculia disability of students in Secondary schools.” The researcher make a null hypothesis: “There is no significant difference in Dyscalculia of boys in Secondary schools.” She selected 487 disabled students by stratified sample method as sample. These students were age group of 14 to 18 years of secondary schools of U.P. and use t-test for testing hypothesis. She found that there is no difference in Dyscalculia between girls of Govt. and Non-Govt. schools. But a significant difference in Dyscalculia between boys of Govt. and Non-Govt. Schools. There is significant difference in Dyscalculia between boys and girls of secondary schools and there is significant difference in Dyscalculia between students of Govt. and Non-Govt. Schools.