Courses for visual and mentally disabled persons
Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) offers programmes for the disabled students. These programmes focus on providing special education to people with visual and mental disability.
These include post-graduate diploma and certificate programmes in special education in mental retardation, visual and hearing impairment.
IGNOU has an impressive 2.5 million students, a national network of 61 regional centers, over 3,000 learner support centers and a presence in 36 countries. There are over 636,000 students have enrolled with IGNOU (this academic year), which is a record for the university, making IGNOU a living testimony to social inclusion and democratization of education.
The programmes include post–graduate professional diploma in special education in the area of mental retardation, visual impairment and hearing impairment, post–graduate professional certificate in special education programme in the areas of mental retardation, visual impairment and hearing impairment, M.Ed. in special education, M.Sc. in counselling and family therapy and certificate in early childhood special education enabling inclusion.
There are large number of programmes in the on–campus mode in IGNOU. These include programmes in journalism, electronic media production and management, social anthropology, chemistry, gender and development studies, extension and development studies, labour and development, actuarial science, social work and translation studies among others.
