Training concludes
Source: The Sangai Express
Thoubal, March 02 2013 :
The two-day training programme on Mental Retardation for Teachers, Parents and High School Students was concluded today at the Counting Hall of DC Office Thoubal.
The programme was organised by the National Institute for the Mentally Handicapped (NIMH), Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Govt.of India in collaboration with District Administration, Thoubal.
During the training programme, topics on what is disability, mental retardation (characteristics, causes and prevention), training children with mental retardation, behaviour modification, schemes and benefits for persons with mental retardation and their families, impairment, disability and handicap, different types of disabilities, management of children with mental retardation in classroom, different Acts for persons with disabilities like Right to Education Act, Persons with Disabilities Act, National Trust Act etc.
were discussed and deliberated upon.