Anjam & Rabia Javeed
Sisters Overcome Disabilities with Help of Instructor "It was a strange experience for me; I was not expecting such results," explained Rizwana Kausar, teacher of DIL-Dhoke Hafeezullah School, Rawalpindi, regarding the success of her deaf and dumb students, Anjam Javeed, 11, and Rabia Javeed, 13. The girls’ parents desperately wanted their daughters to attend school like normal children, so they sent them to a private school four years ago, only to be returned home by the teacher who found them to be inattentive and difficult to teach. When a DIL school was established in their village in 2002, both sisters enrolled. Initially, the girls used sign language to communicate with the teachers and students, but as they learned to read and write, the blackboard became their basis of communication. Questions were written on the blackboard and the sister...