The Department for Empowerment of Differently-Abled and Senior Citizens is conducting training programmes for special teachers to teach visual and hearing impaired students at Helen Keller Government Training Centre for Visually Impaired (VI) and Hearing Impaired (HI) in Tilak Nagar. This special D.Ed programme is equivalent to the regular D.Ed course. The courses offered are D.Ed Special Education-Visual Impairment (for teaching visually impaired students) and D.Ed Special Education-Hearing Impairment (for teaching hearing impaired students).

After the training, the Special Teachers can work in Government and aided Schools run by grants from Department for Empowerment of  Differently-Abled and Senior Citizens, work in regular CBSE Schools as teachers and as resource persons in Rehabilitation Centres under Sarva Shikshana Abhiyan. They will be eligible to apply for TET, CTET and other exams conducted by the Education Department

Applications are available at https://www.rehabcouncil.nic.in/. The last date to apply is July 21. Hall tickets for the entrance exams will be given on July 25 while the exams will be conducted online on  July 30 and 31. Results will be announced on Aug. 5. For details, contact the Deputy Director of the Helen Keller Government Training Centre for Visually Impaired and Hearing Impaired in Tilak Nagar through email: [email protected] or call on Ph: 0821-2491600 or 2959600.