Human Resource - Capacity Building

Human Resource Development

Reporting Period- January-March 2017

The Human Resource Development Department of Vidya Sagar focuses on building and nurturing a cadre of skilled Rehabilitation professionals, enhancing the professional capacity of the existing rehabilitation professionals, addressing specific needs of persons with disability or the family, building and supporting a community of volunteers, personal assistants, caregivers and other support services, acting as a technical resource for other organizations seeking technical support. This is done by designing, developing and conducting and participating in various training programs and through Internship.

The activities carried out during the reporting period focused on language development for children and strengthening the capacities of the teachers and special educators.

Four staff members from Vidya Sagar - Ms. Kalpana, Principal and Head of Alternative and Augmentative Communication; Ms. K.S. Uma, Project Coordinator, HRD; Ms. Saritha, Occupational therapist and Ms. C. Sujatha, Special Educator attended a one week course at IIT, Chennai on "creating solutions for persons with disabilities in minutes".

 A week long course on Language Development for Children with Multiple disabilities was conducted from the 6^th to the 10^th  of March 2017. Eight organizations from various parts of the country and the staff of Vidya sagar took part in the training. Two senior professionals Ms. Sheela Sinha, Former Educational Director, Hellen Keller Institute Mumbai and Ms. Dipti Karnard, Training coordinator of Clarkes school and the staff of Vidya Sagar conducted the training. 19 professionals attended the training. This training was granted the status of a “Continuous Rehab Education Training” by the Rehabilitation Council of India.

 A two days training on Alternative and Augmentative Communication and Autism was conducted at Mumbai by Ms. K.S. Uma , co-ordinator , HRD , and Ms. Kalpana Rao Principal and Head of Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) for professionals and parents on the invitation of ‘Together ‘, a parent initiative for young adults with autism – March 11^th and 12th

A training program was conducted for school teachers and special educators working in and around Tambaram, a town in the out skirts of the Chennai city, as a part of community resource building to support the second Early Intervention Centre of Vidya Sagar located at Tambaram.

Thank You!