According to Kishore (2019), with emphasis on rights of children with disabilities and inclusive education, children with specific learning needs require individualised education plans for which the take off decision point is most important. At ‘Disha – A Resource Centre for Multiple Disabilities’ in Jaipur, an experiment with two short films making with smart phone camera was done on children with problems of hand and finger movement exercises were recorded and the use the basic video-editing software of movie maker was learnt in partnership with the in-house research unit and process analysis of the shorts films as a part of visual research was done. The two short films were given the descriptive titles as ‘Fine motor readiness of hand through sponge made squeezy cylinder with initial grip diameter of one-third of hand-span’ and ‘Two holding fingers work out by making them walk on pencil’. The paper will describe the lessons learned from the visual research initiated through applied visual literacy by the team four people involved in the project; a researcher, two special educator and a care giver to the child with special needs. These two short films are both working as resource for training of special educators and fine motor therapy of hands as writing readiness activities.
According to Kishore (2019), with emphasis on rights of children with disabilities and inclusive education, children with specific learning needs require individualised education plans for which the take off decision point is most important. At ‘Disha – A Resource Centre for Multiple Disabilities’ in Jaipur, an experiment with two short films making with smart phone camera was done on children with problems of hand and finger movement exercises were recorded and the use the basic video-editing software of movie maker was learnt in partnership with the in-house research unit and process analysis of the shorts films as a part of visual research was done. The two short films were given the descriptive titles as ‘Fine motor readiness of hand through sponge made squeezy cylinder with initial grip diameter of one-third of hand-span’ and ‘Two holding fingers work out by making them walk on pencil’. The paper will describe the lessons learned from the visual research initiated through applied visual literacy by the team four people involved in the project; a researcher, two special educator and a care giver to the child with special needs. These two short films are both working as resource for training of special educators and fine motor therapy of hands as writing readiness activities.