Project

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Special School cum Rehabilitation Centre for Intellectual Disability Children

The idea behind the school is to provide formal certification with NIOS Board and the school is committed to recognize talent and skills among special needs students. We place great emphasis on personalized instruction coupled with the great level of attention, care and support in a safe and secure environment. We aim to provide to provide intensive therapy sessions to intellectual disability children who we have identified from poor background with uneducated parents. There is huge demand and need to accommodate needy children but the Special School cannot take due to limited resources and existing low capacity. There is a need for more spacious building and the main cost comes from the therapy sessions which have to be tailored according to the children’s needs. We need occupational therapist, Physiotherapist, Speech Therapist and qualified Special Educators. We are getting children from 20 Km radius of various slums surrounding Subhiksha Special School. As the children come from economically poor families and providing transport is very essential for these families to enroll their children in the centre. These children without the day care Centre would not have access to the resources they desperately need and services like therapies to help them integrate into society. Intellectual Disabilities children become independent and contribute as a productive member in the society. Through various interventions the confidence that we help them gain contributes to make them feel independent to live a full life in college and also in their workplace. There is an untapped pool of future artists, entrepreneurs, innovators and leaders in this community. We strive to identify such gems and facilitate their learning so that they can make a positive difference in our world.

Residential Care Centre for Intellectual Disabilities Children

The biggest worry of the parents and families of children with special needs is the well-being of these children once they get old. The sibling or the extended family is unlikely to look after the children especially in urban areas where families have become largely nuclear in nature with no one to fall back upon. Government with its limited resources can’t provide sufficient alternative care facilities. Subhiksha understands the worry of the families about future sustenance of these children and decided to take a step in this direction. We are planning to set up a residential facility for Special children for lifelong settlement. At our proposed centre these special children will be provided with care and life skills to help them lead a dignified life, even after their biological caregivers are not there The residential facility will have a group of eight houses on this campus. Each house will become home to 5-7 children who live with a professional caregiver. This unit then becomes a family for life. So each person has a home, a family and lives in a caring community. This will help each child get an environment closest to that of a biological family. Besides the emotional support, the proposed residential facility will also provide them round the clock care under the supervision of experts. The essential staff will also stay with the children on the campus. It will provide a range of care services like Life Skill Development and therapeutic Services. The long term impact will be the provision of lifelong care to people with special needs in an environment of care, love and dignity. The Centre provides residential care to children with disabilities with a special need in order to protect and promote their health and well being and nurture their growth and development with regard to their physical, social, emotional and intellectual needs. Children whose disability is so severe or complex that warrants intensive and continuous care and therapy will be taken into the Centre.

Subhiksha Therapy On Wheels

Taking therapy to the homes of Children with Special Needs (CSWNs) will therefore help raise awareness not just within the families, but also due to existing close ties, among slum communities as well. One of the unique aspects of the therapy on wheels is the mother as a co-therapist. Since the mother is the child’s natural teacher, by taking the treatment to their doorsteps through the mobile clinic, they foresee greater participation of the family and the community at large. A one-to-one home intervention service teaching home management to the mother in helping her cope with the special needs of a disabled child is the main focus of the programme. The unit helps deliver the following services to the parent/children with special needs  Physiotherapy  Speech Therapy  Special Education  Training for parents, primarily mothers and grandparents on working as co-therapists. Most children utilizing the services are children with severe locomotor disabilities, bringing the light the desperate need for therapeutic facilities in these slum communities. These children have never been examined or treated by a physiotherapist and never had any interventions for their conditions since birth. The average age group is between 10-12 years. Due to lack of proper exercise in the developmental years, most of the children have sever stiffness of the muscles and general lack of coordination. The main aim of the Mobile therapy unit is to reduce the dependency level of the child and help improve their activities of daily living. Children from 40 slum communities in and around Secunderabad will be screened and served by the Mobile Therapy Unit Assuming an average of two children per slum about 80 children will be served. These children, who have never received any therapeutic intervention so far, will move towards independent performance of ADL (Activities of Daily Living). Training of mothers (and/or other relatives) will ensure better impact of therapy on the children.. This will also ensure increased awareness of mental disability among members of the general community.

Vocational Training for persons with Intellectual Disabilities

Contrary to people suffering from other disabilities, it is generally not possible to educate persons with intellectual disabilities beyond primary level. Also, these persons have abnormal social mannerisms and behaviour due to which it is almost impossible to absorb them within any work setup. Hence, they need a special set-up where they can learn the skills necessary for various vocations and then work under lifelong supervision SUBHIKSHA VOCATIONAL TRAINING CENTRE aims at providing an organized and systematic training to persons with intellectual disabilities in various vocations so that they can work independently or under supervision as per their abilities and/or resources. The project aim is providing all the facilities needed by special children under one roof in a coordinated manner so as to bring about maximum growth in the child and make them independent as far as possible. The school caters to the needs of children with autism, intellectual impairment, behavioral problems, speech/language issues, developmental delays. Project’s goal is to nurture these children with targeted attention and therapy so that eventually, they become self-sufficient. There are individual progress plans for each child which are carried out by specially trained teachers and therapists. Each teacher handles only 4-7 children so that every child gets the required amount of attention. Various vocations under which we plan to train our children include – PRODUCT BASED TRADES – a) Paper bag manufacturing b) Gel candles manufacturing C) Paper plates manufacturing d) Handicrafts items making Most of them are confined to their homes due to lack of facilities and lack of awareness. This type of programmes will enhance the level of awareness and sensitized towards the disability rights. By conducting the vocational training in a systematic and documented way so that the child is able to function independently with minimal supervision in a variety of setups. This will decrease their and the family’s dependence on schools for engaging the children purposefully. The final outcome is a decrease in the financial and emotional burden of the family, society and country