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=== 12. Child who is very confused and disturbed. ===
"Rohan" (name changed) is a 13 years old, enrolled in grade 7 in the Government Higher Primary School Bilekahalli. He is the oldest child of his parents, and has a younger brother who is a fourth-grader at the same institution. He was previosuly enrolled in a Shantinikethan school where completed preschool to grade 6. It is uncertain why he was moved to GHPS Bilekahalli. He comes across as a sincere child who maintains good discipline and takes initiative, but is frequently quiet in class and has had trouble befriending his classmates.
During our sessions and continuous interactions with him we observed that Rohan is comfortable with both English and Kannada and is able to understand the dicsourses provided in either language. He had to be given individual attention during the Math sessions because he struggles to understand the instructions given. He also faces difficulty in comprehension and tends to forget previously covered concepts. It was likely that he also has an eyesight problem since he finds very difficult to read it from the distance more than 1 metre and tends to squint.
During the math sessions, where the activities were mostly conducted in smaller groups, Rohan needed personalized one-to-one support to make him understand the concepts. His retention level is very low – he often forgets previosuly covered concepts and requires a detailed recap to be able to move forward. For example, in a session on subtraction using FLU Model, Rohan found it difficult to solve the sums and was struggling a lot. He had to be prompted every time to initiate counting the dots. The facilitator would have to demonstrate how to count the units and represent it in the form of dots, which he would then replicate. The concept of breaking the tens to make units was also difficult for him to understand. He faced difficulty in grasping the concept of ‘borrowing’ while doing subtraction as well (say in questions such as 23 - 16). This helps us to look back and reflect on the lack of conceptual understanding of greater and smaller number sense.
In terms of vision-related issues, Rohan did undergo a free health check-up as a part of the ____________ campaign. However, he seems to have still have not received his prescription glasses. The facilitator tried to inquire from the class teacher about the same, and although she was aware that he had not received the glasses, she was not sure of the reason behind it.
One day his parents came to the school after the school hours around 3.30. Rohan was engaged in one of the activity with the facilitator. Suddenly his brother entered the class and said “ Appa bandidare manega karkond hogakke” after listening to it he requested the facilitator to end up the activity because he was very happy and excited to see his parents. As soon as he went outside he saw his parents speaking to the class teacher and 6<sup>th</sup> grade teacher. Once he went near his parents, they started to complaint about Rohan in the school premises where most of the children were looking at him due to that he also started to cry. After few minutes when the facilitator found this she went to speak to their parents. She introduced herself that we are from an organisation we are taking sessions for him since 9 months. Later The facilitator started to praise the child that he is a very good, obident soon she started to complaint about the child that he still behaves a childish. He has just grown up but no intellectual development. As he was the elder child his parents brought up with love and care. He was not made to go outside for anyone of the things nor told to make friends. As he was grown up within the 4 wall now his parents expect him to make friends get united with them and play together and try to understand the outside word. For this the facilitator with his parents give him some time to get adjusted to the outside atmosphere suddenly expecting him to do such things is very difficult for a child to do so but his parents are not ready to agree and started to compare his brother “look at him he is his younger brother” when he is able to do why he cant do it. His parents were very angry and upset on him. The facilitator wanted to check about his eye glasses because he was finding very difficult to look at the board or books at a certain distance. So their parents said no we already have got eye check up but its normal. I tried to convince that we may also help the child in getting the glasses to him but their parents refused it and said he just squit the eyes when he is looking but he do not have any eye problem. This was very disappointing to know that his parents were not agreeing that he is finding difficulty.
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