Peshawar
(ANI):
Aamir
Khan
starrer
Bollywood
film
Taare
Zameen
Par,
which
revolves
round
an
eight-year-old
boy
suffering
from
mental
disorder
called
'dyslexia',
has
attracted
praise
in
Pakistan
too,
where
schools
and
college
principals
have
reportedly
recommended
to
their
staff
to
arrange
the
film's
shows
for
the
kids
at
large.
The
disease
is
mainly
characterised
by
difficulties
with
learning,
how
to
decode
the
word,
spell,
read
accurately
and
fluently
and
thus
involve
both
doctors
and
teachers.
The
movie,
which
was
released
in
India
a
few
months
ago
and
had
won
laurels
from
a
cross-section
of
the
society,
is
expected
to
be
screened
soon
in
the
Pakistani
cinemas
by
Geo
TV.
The
film
is
seen
as
a
method
of
making
the
Pakistani
doctors
understand
the
nuances
of
the
disease.
"The
three-hour-long
movie
gives
our
junior
doctors
a
considerable
and
convenient
understanding
of
the
disease," The
News
quoted
Dr
Muhammad
Hussain,
Senior
Registrar
at
Paediatrics
Unit
of
the
Lady
Reading
Hospital,
as
saying.
Regarding
dyslexic
individuals,
he
said
they
often
had
difficulty
breaking
the
code
of
sound-letter
association,
and
they
might
also
reverse
or
transpose
letters
when
writing
or
confuse
letters
with
each
other
in
childhood.
It
was
at
his
recommendation
that
associate
professor
and
in
charge
of
the
'Children
A'
ward
in
LRH,
Asmat
Ara
Khattak
had
colleagues
watch
the
film.
One
the
other
hand,
schools'
head
are
reported
to
have
asked
teachers
to
watch
the
movie,
while
in
some
cases
the
school
administration
arranged
the
shows.
Jahangir
Khan,
who
heads
Khyber
Model
School,
a
chain
of
inter-provincial
schools
made
it
obligatory
for
the
teaching
staff
to
watch
the
film.
He
said
not
every
student
learn
the
same
way.
"As
a
result,
even
though
a
teacher
presents
all
the
needed
material
in
a
lecture,
he
or
she
might
need
to
change
or
supplement
the
way
she
presents
that
information
to
the
student
with
dyslexia," he
added.
Jahangir
opined
that
the
movie
was
of
considerable
help
in
making
teachers
and
parents
understand
their
children
and
if
they
happen
to
face
such
a
problem,
they
could
handle
it
in
time.