Early Intervention for Mentally Disabled Infants

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Summary

Children younger than 5 years, with mental handicaps or at risk for developmental delay, are identified and assessed by professionals. Trained women from the target area provide intervention. progress reportread updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Beneficiaries are poor families and their mentally handicapped offspring. As daily wage workers they forgo opportunities for their child’s development. Superstition leading to nonacceptance, discrimination and problems caused by poverty, denies the children timely intervention that prevents avoidable secondary handicaps. Women, particularly mothers of the disabled, need support to confront problems caused by poverty and its impact on the disability of their child.

Activities

Detection of mothers and children "at risk" for developmental delays; intervention for a target group of children; training of midwives, health workers, teachers of special education and other professionals in the target community.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $1,881
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $6,691
Total Funding Goal: $8,572

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Direct intervention lessens impact of disability and prevents onset of secondary handicaps. Training women to become partners in our work provides an income which leads to greater self worth, improves their status and changes community perceptions.

Project Message

I am a mother of a mentally handicapped son and I learned of Samadhan when a survey worker visited me. Now I am also trained to do surveys and whenever I identify a child who needs help I am so happy.
- Sarojini, survey worker and clinic coordinator

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Padma Rama Rao,
Senior Coordinator, Dwarka Center
Samadhan, Human Resource Center
Pocket II, Sector II, Dwarka
New Delhi, 110 075
India
911126 67 4411
Email:

Project Sponsor

GlobalGiving

Organization

Samadhan
SAMADHAN'S HUMAN RESOURCE CENTER
Pocket 2, Sector 2,
DWARKA, New Delhi 110 047
India
00-11-25073137
http://www.samadhanindia.org

Learn more about Samadhan and the project team.


Samadhan's Current Projects on GlobalGiving

Schooling for Mentally Handicapped Children
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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in India and can also be found under Health.

For more information about India, read the Human Development Report on India or the Wikipedia entry for India.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on August 16, 2007.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on June 01, 2004.

Latest Update from the Field

Health Camps Update

By Pramila Balasundaram - Founder-Director of Samadhan, August 16, 2007 03:51 PM

These are the results of the most recent health camps conducted in our two centers.

Thanks to donor funding, these children will now get the benefits of regular follow ups, appropriate therapy, medication and where necessary intervention provided at home by one of our trained community workers by transferring skills of home management to the mother or care giver apart from the daily care provided by our professional team at the center itself.

These children would have grown up completely devoid of any kind of a support or health care if we had not identified them in our surveys since there is absolutely no help for them in the target areas where they live. Though government health centers do exist most of them were diagnosed as mentally handicapped and that was the extant of help received.

The total number of kids identified as mentally handicapped is eleven but benefits of guidance and counseling are given to the mothers as well, so actual beneficiaries are 22.


Details of the children in Early Intervention Dakshin Puri Centre

S.N. Name, Age, Problem
1. Dimple, 2 years, Mild CP, Rickets
2. Geetika, 3years, Post meningitis, Hydrocephalic
3. Jay, 2years, CP, premature baby
4. Sneha, 2years 6 months, Epileptic Fits, MR
5. Yash, 2years, CP
6. Vishal, 2years, Epileptic Fits

Details of the children in Early Intervention Dwarka Centre

S.N.   Name   Age   Problem
1. Sagar, 4 years, Hypothyroidism, MR
2. Rinky, 3 years, CP with speech problem
3. Karishma, 4 years, MR. with speech problem
4. Vipin, 3 years, MR. with speech problem

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