By Farida Bagasrawala | Programme Director
In India a child born with special needs is destined for a life of dependency. For the poor this situation is extreme. The children with special needs are considered to be a social, financial, mental and physical burden to their families. Through lack of knowledge and skills of the family, the children do not get the appropriate help they need. The children do not go to school and hardly leave their homes. Therefore, they are not challenged and do not develop mentally or physically. The experiences have shown that the families will often prefer to invest on a healthy child over a child with special needs, when it comes to providing food, education, health and other life changing opportunities.
At the special care center- A School for Children with Speaicla Needs by Save The Children India, overall well being on child comes before academics. The support we recieved from you has helped us to provide holistic interventions including catering to Nutritional and health needs, Therapeutic interventions, academics and extracurricular and employability skills training.
This quarter we were able to enroll four new children in school who will be integrated through a programme of "Total Communication". Total Communication is philosophy of educating children with hearing loss that incorporates all means of communication; formal signs, natural gestures, finger spelling, body language, listening, lip reading and speech. Children in total communication programs typically wear hearing aids or cochlear implants. The goal is to optimize language development in whatever way is most effective for the individual child. Total Communication is truly a philosophy rather than a methodology. As a result, the implementation of the total communication philosophy with one child may look entirely different than its implementation with another child.
We will be shring more updates on their development soon and would be happy to answer if there are any queries/questions on the project.
Thank You Once Again for Your Support.
Best Regards
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