Disability rights: Taking steps towards an inclusive society
Live MintThere are easy ways to look at the recent incident at Ranchi Airport when a young traveler was denied permission to board a flight because he is disabled. In a truly inclusive school, our airline staffer would have grown up with a whole range of kids with different learning styles and mobility needs and teachers who accommodated them naturally and without fuss. Students with sensory issues would have been provided with noise-cancelling headphones to help them cope; blind children would have had a scribe and/or a Braille typewriter; kids with Cerebral Palsy would have had special furniture; kids who had trouble understanding would be taught a simpler version of what the rest of the class was doing. She’d just been told she would not be allowed to fly unless her child could behave “normally.” Imagine if, instead, she’d felt supported there at the boarding gate. For me, the one golden thread running through this sad story is the fact that ordinary people in the Ranchi airport stopped what they were doing to reach out to the family, to stand up for a child’s rights.
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