The Department for the Welfare of the Differently-Abled has formed a commission to compile a report on the adoption of specified policy reforms fordyslexiain the state of Nadu. The commission was formed after one of its members, animal welfare activistAntony Rubin, a person with dyslexia himself, submitted a requisition to the Department highlighting low awareness of the Learning disability and the complexity among school children that often left it undiagnosed.
Although concessions like extra time, scribes and second language exemptions make sense when these students with learning disabilities appear for their public exams, lack of sensitization and awareness in teachers and parents cuts out the possibility of early identification and intervention that could enable them to participate in school like their peers and grow up as confident students in the higher classes.
The objective of the commission is to form guidelines for identification and interventions for a comprehensive policy regarding dyslexia