Haroon Kareem TK , Visually impaired first student to write Class 10 board exam
Aclass 10 visually impaired student from Kerala, Haroon Kareem TK, is set to become the first student in India to take the Class 10 board exam or Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SSLC) examination on computers in Kerala. Assistive technology for visually impaired students is still not used in Kerala's SCERT exams. But Haroon secured permission from Kerala's education minister though his request was first denied.However, after the intervention of the state Education Minister C Raveendranath, he agreed to move away from the conventional methods of using braille or a scribe.
Raveendranath intervened in the matter after the boy reached out to him on Facebook and later met him in his office."I met Kerala speaker P Sreeramakrishnan and he facilitated a meeting with Education Minister. The Education Minister has assured me that I will be able to appear for the exam using the medium I am comfortable with," said Haroon after meeting the minister.
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