Harsh Morjaria cannot speak nor can he walk without help. Yet this brave, 18-year-old boy is appearing in the ongoing SSC examination.
Harsh Morjaria cannot speak nor can he walk without help. Yet this brave, 18-year-old boy is appearing in the ongoing SSC examination. Harsh has cerebral palsy but he has never failed in any examination. He is determined to achieve his dream of becoming a computer engineer. And his parents are fully supportive of his wish.
"We have always treated him like a normal child. He sure has problems but we know that he will overcome them," said Harsh's father, Rajubhai Morjaria. Equally supportive is his mother Jigna, a housewife.
"We are sure he will do well in his exams. He is good in studies. Because of his disability, he is not able to write quickly but he is a bright student," she says, her face aglow with pride in her son.
Cerebral palsy is a group of disorders that can involve the brain and the nervous system. It can affect functions such as movement, learning, hearing, seeing, and thinking. It is caused by injuries to the brain while the baby is still in the womb or during the first two years of childhood when the brain is still developing.
Harsh's mother said he had showed symptoms of cerebral palsy soon after birth. "But he can read and write on his own and is able to understand everything which the teacher teaches. He has had three surgeries till date," she said.
"He was able to identify alphabets and numbers on his own before he was five years of age. He was also able to scribble numbers and alphabets. When he was 7 years old, we approached a school where he was admitted in junior KG.
However, his teachers realised that he could grasp things very fast. For this reason, he was moved to senior KG the day after admission," Jigna
Morjaria said.
He now studies in Pathak School where he always attended classes with normal children. "I will score around 65 percent marks," Harsh wrote on a notepad in an answer to a question.
"I want to attend computer classes. I like chess and watching cricket during vacations," Harsh wrote. Like other teenagers, he loves cricket and worships Sachin Tendulkar. His father, Rajubhai, said Harsh is a good player of chess.
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