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| Introduction |
Our outreach team identified 1066 children in the villages. Out of them 96 children are selected for institutional rehabilitation at Campus Challenge. |
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| The criteria for a seat at the Campus are: |
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Orphan Children |
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Semi orphan children |
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Lack of responsible parent hood |
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More disabled children in one family |
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| The disability wise classification is at the moment: |
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Category |
Children |
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Visually Impaired |
17 |
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Physical Challenged |
44 |
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Hearing Impaired |
22 |
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Mentally Challenged |
15 |
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Total |
96 |
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| Regular medical care |
Regular medical checkups are in once in a 10 days for the campus children and are recorded. During this year total 16 children were suffered with diseases like malaria, jaundice, normal fever and abdomen pain. One child is undergone with special treatment and she got blood transmission treatment in the private hospital of Vizianagaram. |
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| Physiotherapy |
Regular physiotherapy sessions were conducted for 25 in campus children in this period. Children are doing balancing exercises, strengthening exercises, stretching exercises, grip & grasp exercises, splint age exercises, sand bag exercises and parallel bar exercises in this time. These exercises are helping the children to recover from the disability. |
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| Orthopedic work shop |
This is the first workshop of its kind in the northern parts of our state. We can prepare lower and upper orthotics and prosthetics and supportive tools. Products like foot orthotics, ankle foots orthotics, ankle foot knee orthotics and arm splint can be produced at this moment at the workshop. These products are prepared with light weight materials. Equipments are already installed and it is started functioning. Dutch volunteer team consisting 5 members are worked here for the initial period. One youth with disability is selected and sent for 1 ½ year intensive training on orthotics maintenance at Bangaluru. Two other youth with disabilities are also getting training at our workshop. They will continue the functioning of the workshop. |
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| Health |
Total |
| Surgery |
5 |
| Walker |
2 |
| Speech therapy |
4 |
| Hearing aids etc |
6 |
| Shoes |
18 |
| Wheel Chairs |
8 |
| Physiotherapy |
41 |
| General treatment illnesses |
40 |
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| Special Education |
Special education classes are conducted for various disabled children with special teachers focussing on the skills development. |
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| Visually Impaired |
There are 18 children in the special education for visually impaired class. Out of them boys are 09 and girls are 09. The main focus of this class will be on 3 areas. The first area is to teach the Braille language for the children, the second area is to enhance the mobility skills among the children and the third area is to teach the academic syllabus for these children. |
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| Speech and Hearing Impaired |
There are 22 children in the special education class for hearing impaired. Out of them10 are boys and 12 are girls. The main focus of this class is on Indian Sign Language, Academic syllabus and Advanced English with grammar. |
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| Mentally Retarded |
There are 14 children in the special education class for mentally retarded. Out of them 11 are boys and 03 are girls. The focus of this class is on personal skills, social skills, daily living skills and academic skills development. |
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ADL (Activities for Daily Living) training is given for 11 mentally retarded children in the Campus. This training was given to children daily 1hour in between 3.30 pm to 4.30 pm. Children are learning colour concepts, shape concepts, size concepts, number concepts, toileting on their own, dressing their own and personal care in this class room |
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| Inclusive Education |
The main objective of the education is to give the Minimum Learning of Levels to all the children. ARDAR is running a normal school in its adjoining premises. In 2011 39 children with physical disabilities admitted in this English Medium School. We are planning to join speech cum hearing impaired and visually impaired children in the normal school from the next academic year.
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| Class |
Boys |
Girls |
Total |
| LKG |
0 |
3 |
3 |
| UKG |
1 |
1 |
2 |
| 1st Standard |
4 |
4 |
8 |
| 2nd Standard |
3 |
0 |
3 |
| 3rd Standard |
2 |
7 |
9 |
| 4th Standard |
6 |
3 |
9 |
| 5th Standard |
2 |
3 |
5 |
| TOTAL |
18 |
21 |
39 |
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| English Coaching |
We established an English coaching center in the campus with Rotary Matching Grant Program. This centre is equipped with 30 computers with head sets. “Child Tuition” is a software which teaches English through interactive games. Each child will log in individually and learn English through interesting games. For the first 8 months Dutch volunteers are working in the class. Further more volunteers will join to continue the work. |
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| Library |
We have library with 3000 volumes in the campus. This is equipped with books, journals, newsletters, newspapers and other useful materials for children and youngsters. Library is regularly opened and children from campus, English medium school and youth enjoy reading. |
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