Importance Of Teaching Aids In English Language Learning Process                        The process of teaching - learning depends upon the different type of equipment available in the classroom. There are many aids available these days like, audio, visual and audio- visual aids. They have very much importance in TLP (Teaching Learning Process)   Meaning of Teaching Aids As we all know that today's age is the age of science and technology. The teaching learning programmes have also been affected by it. The process of teaching - learning depends upon the different type of equipment available in the classroom. Need of Teaching Aids in Language Learning 1) Every individual has the tendency to forget. Proper use of teaching aids helps to retain more concept permanently. 2) Students can learn better when they are motivated properly through different teaching aids. 3) Teaching aids develop the proper image when the students see, hear taste and smell properly. 4) Teaching aids provide complete example for conceptual thinking. 5) The teaching aids create the environment of interest for the students. 6) Teaching aids helps to increase the vocabulary of the students. 7) Teaching aids helps the teacher to get sometime and make learning permanent. 8) Teaching aids provide direct experience to the students. Types of Teaching Aids There are many aids available these days. We may classify these aids as follows- . Visual Aids . Audio Aids . Audio - Visual Aids 1) Visual Aids The aids which use sense of vision are called Visual aids. For example :- actual objects, models, pictures, charts, maps, flash cards, flannel board, bulletin board, chalkboard, overhead projector, slides etc. Out of these black board and chalk are the commonest ones. 2) Audio Aids The aids that involve the sense of hearing are called Audio aids. For example :- radio, tape recorder, gramophone etc. 3) Audio - Visual Aids The aids which involve the sense of vision as well as hearing are called Audio- Visual aids. For example :- television, film projector, film strips etc. Importance of Teaching aids in English Language Learning Teaching aids play an very important role in Teaching- Learning process. Importance of Teaching aids are as follows :- 1) Motivation Teaching aids motivate the students so that they can learn better. 2) Clarification Through teaching aids , the teacher clarify the subject matter more easily. 3) Discouragement of Cramming Teaching aids can facilitate the proper understanding to the students which discourage the act of cramming. 4) Increase the Vocabulary Teaching aids helps to increase the vocabulary of the students more effectively. 5) Saves Time and Money 6) Classroom Live and active Teaching aids make the classroom live and active. 7) Avoids Dullness 8) Direct Experience Teaching aids provide direct experience to the students

What is Child Abuse?

Child Abuse is defined in the Children Young Persons and their Families Act as
“the harming (whether physically, emotionally, or sexually), ill-treatment, abuse, neglect or deprivation of any child or young person.”  It includes:

Emotional Abuse

Emotional abuse occurs when a child’s emotional, psychological or social well-being and sense of worth is continually battered.
It can include a pattern of criticising, rejecting, degrading, ignoring, isolating, corrupting, exploiting and terrorising a child. It may result from exposure to family violence or involvement in illegal or anti-social activities.
Emotional abuse is almost always present when other forms of abuse occur.
The effects of this form of abuse are not always immediate or visible. The long-lasting effects of emotional abuse may only become evident as a child becomes older and begins to show difficult or disturbing behaviours or                                                                                                                         symptoms.

Neglect

Neglect is a pattern of behaviour which occurs over a period of time and results in impaired functioning or development of a child. It is the failure to provide for a child’s basic needs.

Neglect may be:

• Physical - failure to provide necessary basic needs of food, shelter or warmth
• Medical - failure to seek, obtain or follow through with medical care for the child
• Abandonment - leaving a child young person in any situation without arranging necessary care for them and with no intention of returning
• Neglectful supervision – failure to provide developmentally appropriate or legally required supervision
• Refusal to assume parental responsibility - unwillingness or inability to provide appropriate care for a child

Physical Abuse

Physical abuse can be caused from punching, beating, kicking, shaking, biting, burning or throwing the child. Physical abuse may also result from excessive or inappropriate discipline or violence within the family, and is considered abuse regardless of whether or not it was intended to hurt the child. Physical abuse may be the result of a single episode or of a series of episodes.
Injuries to a child may vary in severity and range from minor bruising, burns, welts or bite marks, major fractures of the long bones or skull, to its most extreme form, the death of a child.

Sexual Abuse

Sexual abuse includes acts or behaviours where an adult, older or more powerful person uses a child for a sexual purpose. While it may involve a stranger, most sexual abuse is perpetrated by someone the child knows and trusts.
         It includes, any touching for sexual purpose, fondling of breasts, buttocks, genitals, oral sex, sexual intercourse, an adult exposing themselves to the child, or seeking to have a child touch them for a sexual purpose. It also includes voyeurism, photographing children inappropriately, involving the child in pornographic activities or prostitution or using the internet and phone to initiate sexual conversations with children.