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- Mithu Alur (born 27 March 1943 and usually referred to as Dr. Mithu Alur) is the founder chairperson of The Spastic Society of India – now rechristened ADAPT – Able Disable All People Together. She is an educator, disability rights activist, researcher, writer and published author on issues concerning people with disability in India. Alur is a pioneer in the care and education of people with Neuro-Muscular and Developmental Disabilities, like cerebral palsy, autism, Down syndrome and intellectual disabilities. After her daughter Malini Chib was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, she realised that the care of people with conditions like her daughter was non-existent in India. Hence she trained in England and started the Spastics Society of India (SSI) in 1972. Many parents and friends of people with disability in India took inspiration and training from her and her institute to start respective spastics' societies in different states and today independent Spastic societies exist in 16 states in India with outreach to many rural areas as well. (en)
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- Alur at the North South Dialogue IV, Goa in February, 2012 (en)
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- Malini Chib, Nikhil Chib (en)
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- Starting services for people with disability in India (en)
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- Educator, Disability Rights Activist, Researcher, Writer, Published Author (en)
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- Dr. Alur as quoted in a Hindustan Times article (en)
- Dr. Alur writing in a column in the newspaper The Indian Express. (en)
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- Inclusive education is not special education. It does not refer only to children with special needs, it refers to all children facing some sort of barrier to learning and participation in the classroom. Inclusion is improved access to education. Inclusive education is really education for all — children from poor socio-economic backgrounds , the girl child facing cultural barriers and children with special needs facing systemic institutional barriers. It is high-quality education individualised to each child's needs. Children are not seen as one homogeneous mass, but individuals with their own levels of functioning, who work at their own pace. It is an exciting concept, a new approach to teaching children. Here the belief is no child is a failure and each learner's challenge is special." (en)
- This is a flawed concept. Without meaning to, special schools end up excluding the children from society. Why should a child be treated differently just because a child needs to write with the help of a software instead of a pen?" (en)
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- Mithu Alur (born 27 March 1943 and usually referred to as Dr. Mithu Alur) is the founder chairperson of The Spastic Society of India – now rechristened ADAPT – Able Disable All People Together. She is an educator, disability rights activist, researcher, writer and published author on issues concerning people with disability in India. (en)
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