Education India Project #34615

Support Education of Children With Special Needs

by Save The Children India

Support Education of Children With Special Needs

Project Report | Jun 8, 2020
Covid19- Helping Children with Special Needs

By Jyoti Nale | Project Leader

Save The Children India has been Responding to Covid19 pandemic and have supported over 10,000 families including those having children with special needs. It is critical to understand the impact of lockdown on children with special needs. for children with hearing impairment it disconnects them completely from society as not they do not have any one to communicate with especially those who understand " their language" there is risk of they isolating themselves and also at the risk of regression of the speech and language skills learnt as result of Audio-Verbal therapy interventions. On the other hand, Children with intellectual disability find it extremely difficult to cope with change in routine and become anxious and agitated.

During this pandemic, Save The Children India is offering support to Families of children with special needs through direct cash transfers, supply of groceries as well as the providing session using teletherapy and home programme to help parents to be able to engage children meaningfully.

We hope to have children back to school only in the month of September. The growing number of cases of Covid19 infections has forced state to suspended school based educational activities. However, the team of Save The Children India, Teachers and therapists are motivated to initiate classes digitally and have settled with new normal with great ease.

We require your support more than ever as we plan to provide support for accessing digital tools to our children for uninterrupted learning.

Thank you for your love and support to our children

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Feb 10, 2020
THE JOY OF SPEECH

By Eashaan Kappagantula | Donor Reporting Manager

Jainne is a six year old, cochlear implanted girl, who is currently preparing for integration into a regular school for the academic year 2020-2021.At present, she is studying in the pre-primary level. Initially, she never showed much interest in attending school or speech sessions as she was a very shy girl. She never actively participated in sessions and always used to cry. She was highly dependent on her mother for everything.

She had good form of speech, but she possessed a low vocabulary. She only used to repeat a few words which she already knew. She had very poor receptive and expressive language. It was difficult for her to form even simple 2 to 3 word sentences. She needed both auditory and visual cues for understanding. No doubt her sitting compliance and attention was very good.

Jainne’s mother played a key role in developing her speech and language. Her mother speaks Gujarati and was very bad in communicating in Hindi. Her mother started attending the Mother Toddler program, where she attended all the classes and speech sessions with Jainee, for almost a year. She always took her studies and sessions very seriously and used to try the techniques that were taught. She also made sure she followed the home program that was given to her, while also speaking in Hindi with her and motivating her so speak in small sentences.

After a few months, there was noticeable change observed in her. She started participating very actively in the sessions and interacting with everyone more freely. She follows simple instructions and tries to speak in small sentences. Her expressive language has improved and she also tries to read small sentences.

Jainne’s vocabulary has increased and she can understand simple sentences of 2-3 words now. Her spontaneous speech has improved dramatically, and she possesses good auditory compression. She is also now able to follow simple auditory commands and is also attending our extra classes during vacations, which will surely improve her reading, auditory skills and writing. More over in the last few months, we are pleased to notice a significant rise in her confidence levels as well.

Donate generously, and help many such more children effectively explore the world around them, and attain perfect reintegration into education.

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Nov 11, 2019
Aural Oral Communication Programme

By Siddesh Deshmukh | Manager - Communication & RM

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