• URVASHI JAGOTA

After India's independence, many legislative policies came into existence for the children with disabilities. The main purpose of this is to provide equal educational opportunities to all the children irrespective of their disabilities. Various educational provisions came into existence like special schools, integration, mainstreaming and inclusive education. Inclusive Education is the latest concept in the field of education. It aims to provide education to children with special needs in regular schools. Inclusive education as a notion ensures that school must recognize and respond to the diverse needs of their students and ensuring quality education to all through appropriate curriculum, organizational arrangements, teaching strategies, resource use and partnership with their communities. To promote inclusive education the role of assistive technology is important as it helps the children with special needs to perform tasks independently that they were formerly unable to accomplish, or had great difficulty in accomplishing, by providing enhancements to or changed methods of interacting with the technology needed to accomplish such tasks. Within this broader framework, the paper aims to provide the concept of inclusive education in general, difference between Integrated and Inclusive Education, relationship between Universal Design for Learning and Assistive Technology, different types of assistive technologies used in providing quality education to children with special needs in regular classrooms and existing challenges and suggest the remedial strategies for the utilisation of assistive technology in inclusive education.

Children with special needs, Assistive Technology, Inclusive Education, Challenges and Remedial Strategies

"Role of Assistive Technology in Inclusive Classrooms", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 6, page no.164-168, June-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1806409.pdf

"Role of Assistive Technology in Inclusive Classrooms", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 6, page no. pp164-168, June-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1806409.pdf