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Training centre for differently-abled children

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Training in sensory integration, vocational services "Infants to four-year-old children will be admitted"

REACHING OUT: Cricketers L. Balaji and Sadagopan Ramesh shaking hands with differently abled children at the Centre on Wednesday. — Photo: R.Shivaji Rao

CHENNAI : A centre to provide training for developmentally disabled children was inaugurated at Shastri Nagar in Adyar on Wednesday.

Jointly run by V-Excel Educational Trust and ESVI Sarada Foundation, it would provide training in sensory integration, vocational services, counselling assessments, workshops for teachers, parents and children and home management for parents, said Vasudha Prakash, director, V-Excel Educational Trust.

Dr. Vasudha said infants to four-year-old children with developmental disability would be admitted. Similarly, 16-year olds and older persons could undergo training in various aspects, she said.

Apart from this, the centre would meet the learning needs of normal school-going children. Children in standards VIII to XII could attend an aptitude test to improve results in school. Counselling for marital and adolescent issues could also be conducted at the centre, Dr. Vasudha said.

Workshops for both developmentally disabled and normal children would be conducted on a weekly basis and about 300 children could be accommodated at the new centre, she said. Dr. Vasudha said both differently-abled and other children would be provided training.

They are also planning to train children with mild and moderate disabilities so as to provide them with employment opportunities.

Noted cricketers L. Balaji and Sadagopan Ramesh, industrialist Nalli Kuppusamy Chetty, and A. L. Somayaji, former Additional Advocate-General, Tamil Nadu, were among those who participated in the programme.

The cricketers also interacted with a few developmentally disabled children at the venue.

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