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Alpha To Omega Learning Centre for children with learning disabilities. Address: |
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Helen Keller Service Society For The Disabled This is a non-profit, charitable, voluntary organization established in the year 1979. The organization implements service projects for the welfare of the disabled in Tamil Nadu, founded by Dr G Thiruvasagam for the service of people in the field of welfare of the disabled in rural areas. Address
This is a registered non-profit and non-government society, dedicated to the rehabilitation of children with learning disability and/or other health impairments. Under the able guidance of Dr P Prakash, Chairman, Dept of Psychology, University of Mysore, Samveda made its beginning in early 1995. Address Amar Seva Sangam Sangam was established by Mr S Ramakrishnan in 1981 being the year of the disabled. Mr S Ramakrishnan became a paraplegic in 1975 at the age of 21, when he met with an accident while trying for naval recruitment service. After intensive self-rehabilitation, he wanted to serve society and spend his life motivated by some purpose.In the year 1992, a young professional accountant, Mr S Sankara Raman, who suffers from muscular dystrophy and is confined to wheelchair, left his lucrative practice at Chennai, and joined S Ramakrishnan with the dream to build a "valley" for similar disabled persons. Their vision was to make Amar Seva Sangam a model centre catering to the needs of the disabled. Address
This provides an opportunity to children with physical, mental and multiple disabilities that DISHA has set up. Address Assisi School For The Deaf This school for the deaf is been managed by Assisi Sisters of Mary Immaculate. They undertake the following services: (1) Pre-school training -- The school has a well equipped audiology room to provide speech stimulation and therapy. (2) Educational facilities -- Currently there are 99 children in the school who also avail of the residential facilities offered. Other programs include, parental guidance and home training; audiology clinic; speech training program; early detection and guidance; vocational training in crafts such as tailoring, typing and computer applications. Address Association For The Welfare Of Persons With Mental Handicap Address Association For The Welfare Of The Handicapped This organization works for the advancement of the disabled. It also works in collaboration with Alzheimer's Related Disorders Society and the Hemophilia Society. The disabilities served here are:
Address Akshay Pratishthan Rehabilitation Centre Akshay Pratishthan works at the district and state level with a multidisciplinary approach. It provides integrated education to the able and disabled from the nursery to class VIII students. It has a workshop for the assembling of mobility aids such as shoes, crutches, calipers and prosthesis. Address Thakur Hari Prasad Institute - seeks to enhance the quality of life for people with mentally-retarded disabilities. Also provides vocational training programs, therapeutic treatment, and family support.
Centre for Rehabilitation & Education of the
Mentally Retarded voluntary organisation consisting of deaf and hearing
people committed to working with the deaf community in India. Vagdevi Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Communication Impaired Vagdevi Centre was established in 1996 by Shantha Radhakrishna, a speech language pathologist and audiologist trained in India and USA. The purpose of this Centre is to promote integrated education for the communication impaired and to create an awareness about communication impairment via public education and multimedia. National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP) - non-profit organisation working as an interface between government,
industry, international agencies and the voluntary sector towards better
employment opportunities for disabled people. National Society for Equal Opportunity for the Handicapped (NASEOH) - NASEOH,
India founded in 1968, works towards the betterment of all categories of
disabled people. It provides people with disablities with equal
opportunities for education, vocational training, work, and recreation. Rehabilitation Council of India - Responsibilites include regulating and
standardizing training policies and programmes in the field of
rehabilitation of people with disabilities. In the year 1981,
which was declared the 'International Year of the Disabled' a group of
twelve enterprising women of Indore got together on 16th February 1981 and
formed into a registered society 'Sanjeevani Seva Sangam' with the
objectives of working for the welfare of the disabled in the fields of
education, health, socio-economic upliftment by way of training and
employment, and thus total rehabilitation. A home for the mentally challenged. Day school for mentally disabled children. The Mission is to
rehabilitate mentally disabled children by preparing them for greater
self-sufficiency and independent living, and to make them productive
members of the society. Jyoti - Special school for the mentally impaired children. Jyoti aims at training the handicapped in self-reliance and self-dependence. The primary aim of the institution is to provide educational, prevocational and vocational training facilities to the mentally retarded as well as hearing impaired children. MGR Memorial Charitable Trust - This home recognised by the directorate of
rehabilitation of the disabled of the Government of Tamil Nadu has
specially trained staff to handle the classes upto the higher secondary
level with facilities for Science groups. Apart from general education,
the team of skilled and dedicated teachers guide the children to acquire
language and speech skills as well as gymnastics, dance and yoga and help
in nurturing their all round personality as to cope up with the
challenging world. Clarke School for the Deaf and Mentally Retarded - Offers education with
dance, yoga, and computer training. The Clarke School is one of the few
successful schools in India imparting high standard of education to the
Hearing Impaired and the Mentally Retarded. Madras Institute To Habilitate Retarded Afflicted (MITHRA), a
non-profit voluntary and charitable organization catering to the
rehabilitation of the mentally retarded and physically handicapped
children. They produce handcrafted items in India by physically handicapped
individuals as part of a socio-economic rehabilitation project. Cheshire Homes is a residential facility for physically handicapped
people. Services include : Residential Home for 45 physically
handicapped women and girls ages from 4 to 84, Rehabilitation Centre
(started in 1985) which aims to train physically handicapped men and
women, The School for children of the Home, Shop for the sale of
handicrafts. Share & Care Children's Welfare Society Share and Care Children's Welfare Society is a non-profit making,
non-political, non-governmental organization working with poor, orphan and
destitute children, the handicapped, the aged, women, bonded laborers and
fishermen in both rural villages and urban slums in and around the South
Indian City of Chennai ( Madras ).
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