Early
Intervention & Rehabilitation Centre for Special Needs Children, Yanam,
Puducherry (UT)Yanam is
in the Puducherry Union Territory of India, situated on the banks of Bay of
Bengal. Yanam is an island situated about 30 Km away from Kakinada in the
coastal region of Bay of Bengal where the Rehabilitation services are poor and
most of the children with disabilities & malnutrition, developmentally
delayed are living in miserable conditions.
Uma
Educational and Technical Society is running a Special School for the Children
with Intellectual Disabilities at Yanam, Puducherry (Union Territory of India)
with the financial support from Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment,
Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, Government of India,
New Delhi for providing Special Education, social acceptance, respect their
inherent dignity, individual autonomy and sense of belonging through sensitization
and awareness programmes.
This
center is providing Rehabilitation services to the Special Needs Children in
the surrounding areas of Yanam. Sri. Malladi Krishna Rao, Hon’ble Ministry of
Health, Government of Puducherry (UT) is partially extending his financial
support.
The main
objective of this center is to provide services like special Education,
Therapeutic services, Home based intervention and Education, Inclusion and
Mainstreaming, Vocational skill training and job placement etc. to the persons
with different abilities with special needs.
This center
is providing Rehabilitation services to the following categories of children.
- Children with Intellectual Disabilities.
- Children with Cerebral Palsy.
- Children with Autism.
- Children with Hearing Impaired.
- Children with Multiple Disabilities.
- Children with Learning Disabilities.
- Children and Adults with Loco motor Disabilities.
The
following activities are followed thoroughly by professionals like
Physiotherapist, Rehabilitation Psychologists, Speech Therapist and Special
Educators working for the cause of Disabilities.
The
Target age group is from 0 to 18 years our motto is to provide Therapeutic
Intervention, Early Childhood Special Education, Psychological Interventions,
Medical & Health Interventions, Communication & Social Interventions,
Recreational Development activities, Integrating into the mainstream of
Education, Special Education and Training at Primary to Vocational level and
Providing suitable Teaching Learning Material (TLM) Kits to the needy poor
children. The categories are developmentally delayed children.
Activities- The
following are the activities going on for the betterment of persons with
different abilities:
Different
types of educational modes are being adopted through FACP (Functional
Assessment Checklist Programme) Pre Primary, Primary-I, Primary-II, Secondary,
Prevocational and Vocational classes based on their skill, age, mobility and
capability.
