Miss Sudha is enjoying teaching sign language

However, the special class in the south corner of the lower floor of the same school is completely different from that. In that class, which is always quiet, even the teacher does not change after the bell. The noise outside does not affect the 13 students and teacher Sudha Gautam studying there . Gautam is the only teacher of the hearing impaired (deaf) children. She is also hard of hearing.

After coming to school, after participating in prayer with other students, Gautham's days are spent teaching 13 students up to class 5 in one room . Gautam, a 29-year-old teacher of Bardibas-3, has been teaching hearing-impaired students for 10 years in her own rhythm and tune. She says that these students are more stubborn, quarrelsome, runaway, and angry than usual, so it is difficult to handle them. Although special education classes were conducted to teach 16 such students in

school, only 13 students were enrolled this year. It is not easy to manage a student alone. Others don't understand sign language," Gautam wrote, "we can't hear it spoken. Everything cannot be understood and explained by writing. An interpreter has become necessary in the school. Gautam has no choice because there is no interpreter in the school. When I wrote to the teacher Gaumat and questioned her, she wrote this answer.

When school is on vacation, the same teacher substitutes when absent. Vacant classes are taught by teachers of other subjects . But teacher Gautam does not have such a facility . Under normal circumstances, Gautham doesn't even get leave . When you are on vacation, when you are sick, or when you go somewhere, you have to arrange an alternative teacher yourself . Gautam invited Sarlahi's friend Apar Bhattarai and resumed the class while participating in the Asia representative meeting of the World Federation organized by the Regional Secretariat of the Deaf in Indonesia.

Gautam, who returned to Mahottari on Wednesday after participating in the program that lasted from August 15 to 18, was met at school on Thursday. Substitutes and Interpreters "I had to conduct classes with the help of Sarlahi's friends because there was no teacher," said Gautam, "I have been conducting classes regularly even though there was no substitute. But, it is getting difficult.'

Along with teaching special class students daily, teacher Gautam has joined organizations at the district, state, and national levels and has been advocating for the rights of the deaf at the international level. Mahottari Bahira Sangh, secretary of National Deaf Federation of Madhes Pradesh, central member of National Deaf Federation, member of National Disabled Federation of Madhes Pradesh, Gautam taught in sign language from classes 1 to 4 Sarlahi, from 5 to 10 Chandranigahpur in Rautahat, classes 11 and 12 Pokhara, Nepali She studied the subject from B.Ed Siraha.

In Tribhuvan Secondary School Gaushala, 13 deaf students are being educated up to class 5 on full scholarship . Principal Vinod Mahato said that financial support is being provided by the Ministry of Education at the rate of Rs 4,000 per student. Mahato said that a dormitory is being opened in the school premises for such students. There are such schools in Rautahat and Siraha for the hearing impaired who want to study above 5th grade.