Q. Write a letter to the editor of a newspaper highlighting barriers to accessibility of inclusive
education in Pakistan.
Pakistan
Karachi
18th May 2023
The Editor
The Dawn news
Karachi, Pakistan
Subject: Barriers to accessibility of inclusive education in Pakistan
Respected Sir/ Ma’am
I am Rishaeel Gul, student of Sindh Madressat-ul-Islam University, department of Education. I
am writing to you to highlight the barriers to accessibility of inclusive education in Pakistan.
The inclusive education learners face various issues while accessing inclusive education. In
many parts of Pakistan, and in many institutions the curriculum is not updated and it does not
consider the needs of inclusive learners. Another issue is, that many teachers and staffs are
untrained, and also, there’s not enough and accessible resources for the inclusive learners. The
most highlighting issue/barrier is the attitude of people towards them, even in today’s era, people
still have negative attitude for the inclusive learners. The infrastructure also adds to their learning
difficulties, as these inclusive learners specially, the visually impaired and the physically
disabled are unable to get the comfortable environment, because, there’s no appropriate
resources for them. The chairs in the classrooms are fixed and not according to the needs of
physically disabled students as they require movable and specially designed chairs in the classes.
Also, because of these kind of chairs the wheelchair users can’t take their wheelchairs inside the
classroom and they have to sit on the chairs that are present in the classroom, which is not
comfortable for them. The visually impaired students don’t get the audio versions of the material
taught in the class, and have difficulties to keep up with their learning and to achieve their
learning goals. Moreover, if they want to go to other places such as: libraries, canteens, and
