DISABILITY

COMMUNITY BASED EARLY INTERVENTION IN CHILDHOOD DISABILITIES AND DEVELOPMENT DELAYS

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The focus of the project is only children with disabilities (CwDs) and their parents. It facilitates community based early identification of and intervention in CwDs.

The specific objectives are:

1. To identify high-risk pregnancies and children with disabilities and development delays at an early age.

2. To undertake early intervention through community based day care centres and home based interventions.

3. ACTIVITIES

Home visit	Ai??
Awareness programmes to pregnant women
Identification of high risk pregnancies and referral
New born screening
Assessment / Follow up camps	Ai??
Management of Community Based Day Care Centres (DCCs)Ai??
Early stimulation programmes including physiotherapy, speech therapy, music therapy, play and recreation therapy.
Development of non academic skills including Daily Living Skills, dance and Gardening
Development of academic skills including Language, Maths, Science and Social Science

The target area for intervention are Pallavoor and Chettikulam panchayaths of Tirunelveli district.Ai??

As part of the intervention, two community based day care centres are managed at Pallavoor and Chettikulam. A total of 28 children with mental retardation and cerebral palsy attend these day care centres. Depending on their nature of disability, their future goal is developed with the active participation of the parents and intervention at the DCC and home based interventions are tuned towards optimizing the potentials of these children.

EXPECTED OUTCOME

• Every year about 36 children (@ 12 per DCC) below 18 years would attend the DCC and develop their potentials considerably.
• Community awareness on disabilities and development delays will increase and disabilities will be prevented
• The parents or siblings will be prepared to undertake domiciliary intervention.
• The functional independency of the CwDs would have improved.
• Community would actively contribute for the rehabilitation process.

COLLABORATION

This project is designed as a collaborative venture relaying heavily on local resources and minimum dependence on external resources that serve as catalysts in taking the project forward.

The specific areas of expertise in Pro-Vision, GGAMCCC and RUCODE India are optimally used for effective implementation of the project. Thus a good combination of various strengths and resources would certainly prove to be cost effective and bring maximum benefits to the CwDs and their families.

This project implementation commenced in February 2015 as an experimental project and based on the experiences gained and issues confronted; it was redesigned to address the issue more comprehensive and sustainable way.