Children With Disabilities

Children with Disabilities: Nodira's Story will help teachers to engage students by:
• Promoting student reflection and critical thinking about being global citizens.
• Encouraging understanding about the ways in which children, specifically children with disabilities, are excluded from education and essential services around the world.
• Introducing UNICEF programs that address the root causes of the exclusion of children.

 

Children With Disabilities: Nodira’s Story will help teachers to engage students by: • Promoting student reflection and critical thinking about being global citizens. • Encouraging understanding about the ways in which children, specifically children with disabilities, are excluded from education and essential services around the world. • Introducing UNICEF programs that address the root causes of the exclusion of children. • Drawing parallels between the experience of children in the United States and of children elsewhere around the world.

Examine the case studies of Ethiopia, Georgia, Macedonia and Sri Lanka - and how disabilities affect the lives of children living in those countries.

Learn about how Ethiopia, Georgia, Sri Lanka and Macedonia are aiming to provide access to education and basic services for all children.

Watch a video about a child friendly school in Bosnia and Herzegovina. More than a decade after the war, this school is using a multi-cultural, child centered model to best serve the needs of its students.

Learn about a UNICEF-supported initiative to provide primary school textbooks in Braille to students living in Zimbabwe.

UNICEF podcast moderator Femi Oke talks to Ms Elina Lehtomaki, Researcher at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland and a pioneer in the field of inclusive education.

Podcast moderator Kathryn Herzog spoke with Baba Diri Margaret, who lost her sight at 15-years-old and is now an Honorable Member of the Ugandan Parliament and a central figure of the disability movement in her country.