Schooling of Child with Special Need Parent Involvement and Participation

This paper presents parents account of their experiences with regard to their child’s (with special need) schooling. This paper will explore the degree of parental involvement when their children with special needs are integrated in mainstream schools It firstly provides a historical overview of the development of educational policies in India. This is necessary because, during the last few decades, India has witnessed rapid changes in its policy agendas and in the discourses regarding ‘special’ education, and the establishment of programmes for disabled students. This paper has explored the parents' involvement, participation and experiences in the school setting. For most of the parents, the school is the place where they experienced and struggled negligence.