Salma Prabhu, was discussing with me, that over the last 15 years, she had profiled around 42,000 students and helped them in making proper career choices! She also mentioned regarding her widespread work in educational institutions in the field of counseling and remedial education (dyslexia) which had made a lasting difference in the lives of affected students and parents. It was indeed an exhilarating thought, filling our hearts with a sense of pride! The trials and tribulations of seeing thousands of parents go through traumatic indecisive moments and then the joy of having seeing them from confusion to clarity! Then in flash of a moment, some vital statistics came alive which took me to the real world of facts as they stood today. Fact 1: Every year almost 2 crores students in India pass out of std X and std XII and of these hardly 10% make an informed career choice based on their ability and interest
Fact 2: Statistics show that atleast 8-10% of the students are affected by some amount of varying dyslexia of which more than 90% go undetected
Fact 3: There is a tremendous shortage of trained counselors and professionals in career counseling and for treating learning difficulties like dyslexia
What is it that needed to be done to help the students and parents in the areas identified above?
