Shristi Special Academy

Evaluation/Tracking over 2009-10 and 2010-11

Updates from 2011

Budget for 2011-12

Presented at Asha SV and Asha Austin, Jun/Jul 2011

Invisible handicap = Invisible people

• Mentally disabled are over about 15% of all disabled folks in India (by census data)– 40 lakh mentally disabled in India– Seeing, Hearing, Speech, Movement, & Mental– Mentally disabled are further discriminated

• Society does not accept them easily• Society does not accept them easily• Parents hide it until there is a physical manifestation• Treated as stigma instead of disability

• By extrapolation data– 1 in 150 people are autistic (> 2million in India)– Over 50 lakh people with CP– 30% of all early birth or low-weight at birth children have CP

Invisible handicap = Invisible people

• Not much recognition or knowledge about mental impairments in general public domain– Inadequate awareness of abilities and services

• Divide is further more in rural areas• Majority of institutions working with the mentally

disabled have stipulations:disabled have stipulations:– Refuse services to children who are not toilet trained– Refuse to admit children with severe retardation or

seizure disorders– Don’t necessarily have vocational training programs for

those above 16yrs of age

• Ensures children don’t realize their potential and live a life of neglect

Shristi: program overview

• Structured intervention programs for children with– Mental retardation– Autism– ADHD– Down’s syndrome– any other intellectual impairment

• Rehabilitation includes– Therapeutic intervention– Special education– Sensory stimulation– Physiotherapy– Language stimulation– Occupational therapy

Shristi: program overview

• Individualized child-focused programs• Child centric end-to-end argument

– Enable children with developmental delays to go to normal or integrated schools

– Enable others to gain employment, or be gainfully employed within Shristi’s sheltered workshopemployed within Shristi’s sheltered workshop

• Special Educators– Are the core of the program– Well trained (continued training)– Hard to find, harder to sustain– Asha’s focus – in Autism and Respite Care units

Shristi: program overview

• Saathi (early intervention unit)– For children under the age of 5 with delayed

development or psycho-motor retardation– Specific emphasis on sensory motor training– Train skills which are delayed or wont happen naturally

• Prakruti (autism unit)• Prakruti (autism unit)– Intensive, focused therapy to autistic children– Find a way to communicate with each child– Adapt to their mode of communication, integrate well in

social settings

• Prayathna (respite care unit)– For those with severe retardation or multiple disabilities– Care-giver programs and respite for parents

Shristi: program overview

• Dhruthi (vocational training)– Pre-vocational training to identify skills– After children are 14– Internship at sheltered workshop or outside– Integrate socially and place them in gainful

employmentemployment– Full scale production at the workshop

• Balwadi– For children under 6 (normal children)– Early screening for autism and other disorders– Some success in early intervention– Children are more sensitive as they go on in life

Shristi: program overview

• Redefined Curriculum– Specially designed (and honed for each child)– Family centric catering to holistic development– Self-care, socialization, appropriate-behavior,

language skills, physical ability, cognitive development – in that order– in that order

– Pet therapy

• Infrastructure– Rural campus in Channenhalli – all units except

Autism, and vocational unit workshop– Construction complete, organic garden– In-town Autism center in Nagarbhavi

Shristi: Asha’s involvement

• First visited in 2003• Much debate over SAC, what to support etc.• Decided on Teachers salaries of the Autism unit• Some initial one-time support from UIUC

– Some equipment, and towards maintenance of a bus– Some equipment, and towards maintenance of a bus

• Steady support from Austin (except 2010-11)• SV support started in 2008-09• Extended to therapists of Autism unit• Included entire Respite Care unit

– Care givers, therapists, special educators

Shristi: Asha SV Evaluation

• Asha SV Evaluation Document 2009• Eval Matrix broken down by 5 meta-level tasks

– Training• Teachers, educators, care-givers, parents, etc.

– Outreach• Awareness, early intervention, social impact, acceptance, etc.• Awareness, early intervention, social impact, acceptance, etc.

– Methodology• Pedagogy, documentation, innovation, communication, etc.

– Staff• Attrition, quality of interaction, staff-evals

– Vocational Unit• Number of orders etc. in the workshop• Children graduating into gainful employment• Stipends, streams of training, increased skill, etc.

Shristi: Asha SV Evaluation

Shristi: Asha SV Evaluation

Shristi: Asha SV Evaluation

Shristi: Asha SV Evaluation

Shristi: Asha SV Evaluation

Shristi: Asha SV Evaluation

Autism and Respite Care Unit Budget 2011-12