By Subhashini Prabhaker | Project Leader
FREE HEALTH CAMP CONDUCTED FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS
SAMADHAN conducts periodic surveys to identify children with intellectual disability, public awareness campaigns through health camps, puppetshows and streetplays.
On 12.09.2017, SAMADHAN conducted a health camp at SAMADHAN Centre in Dwarka, which catered to 35 children with intellectual disabilities, along with their parents from, in & around Dwarka, in the age group of 0-15 years.
Multidisciplinary professionals consisting of a Pediatrician, Speech Therapist, Occupational Therapist, Psychologist and Special educator provided assessment services, therapeutic intervention to the intellectually disabled children during this camp. Counselling services on obtaining disability certificate & Legal guardianship was also provided to all the parents who attended the camp. Being a registered organisation and a member of Local Level Committee, New Delhi District, of National Trust, statutory body of Government of India, SAMADHAN will assist parents to fill in online applications for Legal Guardianship and Nirmaya schemes of National Trust.
SAMADHAN collaborated with Edgeware Technologies Pvt. Ltd, a company working with documentation of medical records (for more info - https://demo.vista-edge.com). which helped to streamline the documentation process by customizing a software VistA- Edge for this Health camp. The staff of Edgeware and some volunteers were involved in entering the data of the registration and assessment reports in the software.
Team SAMADHAN would like to appreciate the staff of Edgeware, volunteers and the professionals for giving their time and support to reach out to children with intellectual disabilities.
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