By Elsa | Senior Manager Partnerships
Minakshi (15) studies in the 6th grade at the Hellen Keller Institute for Deaf and Deafblind. She participates in ‘Enabling Change’, OSCAR’s disability inclusion project that conducts football sessions for children with disabilities. Minakshi is deaf and uses sign language to communicate with her peers, teachers, and coaches.
Despite her disability, Minakshi is an excellent communicator. This is due to her excellent grasp of sign language. She understands the various semantics and nuances of sign language and retains information very well. These qualities help Minakshi excel in her studies. Minakshi loves school and especially enjoys mathematics and social sciences. Aside from her impressive academic performance, Minakshi also displays leadership qualities. Minakshi is the class prefect and takes lessons and solves the doubts of other students when teachers are not available in the classroom. Moreover, during the lockdown, there have been a number of challenges in educating children with disabilities, especially those who are hard of hearing. Minakshi’s younger brother, who is also deaf, has found it difficult to adapt to the new normal of online learning. However, with Minakshi’s support at home, he is slowly improving and coping with his academics. Minakshi's teachers are impressed by her maturity at such a young age. They tell us that her goal is to become a teacher, inspired by a deaf English teacher who used to teach her at school. ‘If she can do it, so can I’, she signs with a big smile on her face! Minakshi spends her free time participating in arts and crafts activities. She loves drawing and painting and has recently taken an interest in creating handicrafts. But of course, she misses playing football, meeting her friends, and everyday life at school.
Minakshi has inspired us all with her resilience and initiative. We hope for many successes for her in the coming year! Through this time when schools are shut through the pandemic, we continued reaching out to the children with Zumba and online sessions. The lockdown has made things more difficult for children with disabilities but we have tried our best
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