Education for the Differently Abled: Impact of Natural and Applied Sciences

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Relation of the issue to Natural and Applied sciences
Hearing and speech disabilities are often an area of concern in the young population
as it impact their ability of learning, academic abilities and communication capacity to a
drastic extent. Natural science is one of the oldest streams of scientific developments which is
primarily composed of physical sciences and life sciences. A distortion in the way of natural
sciences rhythm, lead to a ‘glitch’ in the stream of autobiographical consciousness
(Santangelo et al., 2018). The term ‘disabled’, due to its ethical implications has been
replaced by ‘differently abled’ and here, in the new term itself, lies the importance of
imparting them education through modern communication and other applied sciences such as
linguistics (Evans & Green, 2018) and behavioural psychology (Dobson and Dozois, 2019).
While the applied sciences, in form of special education through sign languages continues to
have a massive impact on the empowerment of ‘differently abled people’, the applied
sciences in its very core though, continues to use the ‘alternate circuits’ present within natural
science of body and mind.
Impact of science on the issue
There are four lenses through which ‘differently abled people’ can be imparted the
same education, that everyone of us has the right to receive and these lenses are importantly –
the social science lens, the natural sciences lens, the lens of history and the lens of
humanities. The idea that knowledge finds a way to interact and transform a mind can be very
well applied when it comes to teaching people who are functionally deaf or dumb or both.
The knowledge with a ‘different era’ can be presented in form of visually stimulating objects
such as pictures, artefacts, pictograms, cultural photographs are as impacting as verbal
storytelling. Observation is an integral part of natural science and through observational