• Ms. Barnalee Thakuria

Historically, the education for students with disabilities has been progressed from negligence to institutional, residential schooling, other isolated schools and classes. The vocational courses and training, in such school, can help in ascertaining the development of the student. Vocational courses should encompass comprehensive experiences through which students could learn to prepare for productive engagement in future work. In this study, an attempt has been made to find out the followed curricular content, recreational & leisure skills and vocational skills of visually impaired children in Assam, North East India. A descriptive survey method has been used, and a total of five special schools for visually impaired children have been selected by applying a simple random sampling technique. The present sample at the time of visiting has been considered as a sample of the study under incidental sampling technique with a total number of 100 teachers, including the headmaster and the present students. As per as the dimension is concerned, Curriculum Content of all five Visually impaired Special School comes under the Board of Secondary Education (SEBA) where music is considered to be an elective subject. It has been found that all the five special schools for visually impaired provides vocational courses for the students, i.e. spoken English, computer, craft and yoga. It has also been observed that the main methods of teaching were delivered with 'learning by doing' practice, 'learning by feeling and listening', 'demonstration method' and individual instruction of each child.

Vocational Education, Visually impaired, disabilities, skills.

"VOCATIONAL EDUCATION OF VISUALLY IMPAIRED CHILDREN IN ASSAM, NORTH EAST INDIA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 9, page no.1425-1427, September 2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2006539.pdf

"VOCATIONAL EDUCATION OF VISUALLY IMPAIRED CHILDREN IN ASSAM, NORTH EAST INDIA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 9, page no. pp1425-1427, September 2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2006539.pdf